ASUS P8P67 and P8P67 Deluxe Intel Sandy Bridge Motherboard Review

Futuremark 3DMark 11

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.

Benchmark results: Our results in Futuremark 3DMark 11 are rather intriguing. The extreme preset only showed a slight difference between the P55 system and the new Sandy Bridge systems, 50 points to be exact. When we look at the performance preset the Intel P67 systems were ~85% faster. Comparing only the two P67 systems the ASUS P8P67 had a .6% lead over the ASUS P8P67 Deluxe in the extreme preset and the ASUS P8P67 Deluxe had a .7% lead over the ASUS P8P67.