ASUS ROG MARS 2 3GB Video Card Review w/ NVIDIA Surround

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 has recently released 3DMark11 we decided to run the benchmark at both performance and extreme presets to see how our hardware will run.

3DMark 11 Extreme Benchmark Results:

Both the ASUS MARS 2 and AMD Radeon HD 6990 both do very well on 3DMark11 and we expected that since they are both high-end graphics cards that most dream about owning. Overall, the win went to the ASUS MARS 2 as it was able to defeat the AMD Radeon HD 6990 with the jumper set to the overclocked position on both Performance and Extreme settings.

3DMark 11 Detailed Results for the AMD Radeon HD 6990:

3DMark 11 Detailed Results for the ASUS MARS 2: