GIGABYTE P67A-UD4 Motherboard Performance Review

Futuremark 3DMark 11 Synthetic 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.

Benchmark results: The GIGABYTE P67A-UD4 has successfully come out as king of the hill in Futuremark’s new DirectX 11 benchmark, 3DMark 11. The performance preset shows the GIGABYTE P67A-UD4 having a 2.1% higher score than the MSI P67A-GD65 which was the previous best at this preset. At the Extreme preset in 3DMark 11 the difference between our top four boards is barely worth mentioning. I did say barely, though; the GIGABYTE P67A-UD4 scored 1609 3DMarks while the next board, the ASUS P8P67, scored 1606 3DMarks. That is a difference of only ~.2%. If we look at the performance of all of our Intel P67 in 3DMark 11 we see that the GIGABYTE P67A-UD4 has a 4% lead over the lowest performing board which happens to be the ECS P67H2-A.