MSI 990FXA-GD80 Motherboard Review – AMD 990FX Chipset

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.

MSI 990FXA-GD80 3DMark11 Extreme Preset Benchmark Results

MSI 990FXA-GD80 3DMark11 Performance Preset Benchmark Results

Benchmark results: There is very little difference between the two boards in Futuremark 3DMark11. The Extreme preset shows only 2 points difference in the overall scores with the MSI 990FXA-GD80 taking the top spot with 1584 3DMarks. The Performance preset shows a 12 point difference with the ASRock 890FX Deluxe4 in the lead. Though the MSI 990FXA-GD80 had a higher graphics score.