GIGABYTE GA-990FXA-UD7 Motherboard Review

Futuremark 3DMark11 Synthetic Gaming Benchmark

3DMark 11 is the latest version of the worlds most popular benchmark for measuring the 3D graphics performance of gaming PCs. 3DMark 11 uses a native DirectX 11 engine designed to make extensive use of all the new features in DirectX 11, including tessellation, compute shaders and multi-threading.

Since Futuremark is releasing 3DMark11 today we decided to run the benchmark at both performance and extreme presets to see how our hardware will run.

GIGABYTE 990FXA-UD7 3DMark11 Extreme Preset Benchmark Results

GIGABYTE 990FXA-UD7 990FX 3DMark11 Performance Preset Benchmark Results

Benchmark results: The GIGABYTE 990FXA-UD7 was able to yield some solid scores in 3DMark 11 when coupled with the AMD FX-8150 ‘Bulldozer’ processor. Unfortunately the ASUS Crosshair V Formula was able to outperform the 990FXA-UD7 by a small margin. While running the Extreme preset the GIGABYTE 990FXA-UD7 was able to score 1618 points overall and 1463 points for the graphics score. The ASUS Crosshair V Formula was able to achieve 1651 points overall and 1494 points in the graphics score. While running the performance preset, the GIGABYTE 990FXA-UD7 was once again bested by the Crosshair V Formula. The overall score for the 990FXA-UD7 was 4949 points and the graphics score was 4701 points. The ASUS Crosshair V Formula was just beyond the 5000 point line with 5022 overall and a 4785 GPU score.