ECS P67H2-A Black Extreme Motherboard Performance 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: The ECS P67H2-A ended up slightly behind the other Intel P67 boards when running Futuremark 3DMark 11. Running in the performance preset, the ECS P67H2-A Black Extreme was 123 3DMarks or 2.7% behind the ASUS P8P67 which is the next lowest performing board, and 3.7% behind the MSI P67A-GD65 which is the highest performing board in the performance preset. Taking a look at the Extreme preset numbers, the ECS P67H2-A Extreme Black once again fell short, including to the Intel P55 System. When comparing the performance to the Intel P67 platforms, the ECS P67H2-A Extreme Black was between 2.9% and 3.8% behind in performance.