Game performance - 3DMark Vantage (DirectX 10)

3DMark Vantage (DirectX 10)

3DMark Vantage focuses on the two areas most critical to gaming performance: the CPU and the GPU. With the emergence of multi-package and multi-core configurations on both the CPU and GPU side, the performance scale of these areas has widened, and the visual and game-play effects made possible by these configurations are accordingly wide-ranging. This makes covering the entire spectrum of 3D gaming a difficult task. 3DMark Vantage solves this problem in three ways:

1. Isolate GPU and CPU performance benchmarking into separate tests,
2. Cover several visual and game-play effects and techniques in four different tests, and
3. Introduce visual quality presets to scale the graphics test load up through the highest-end hardware.

To this end, 3DMark Vantage has two GPU tests, each with a different emphasis on various visual techniques, and two CPU tests, which cover the two most common CPU-side tasks: Physics Simulation and AI. It also has four visual quality presets (Entry, Performance, High, and Extreme) available in the Advanced and Professional versions, which increase the graphics load successively for even more visual quality. Each preset will produce a separate, official 3DMark Score, tagged with the preset in question.

Above you can see 3DMark Vantage, this time the overall P score. The Crosshair IV Formula combo with the 1055T sets a score in the 16.000 region, with the 1090T add another 500 points. And of course overclocked we close in at the 980X running in its baseline configuration. Overall very decent results.

For those wondering about Multi-GPU performance .. I ran a little short on time but popping two Radeon HD 5870 on this motherboard with the processor overclocekd resultsed in a P score og 23215 and a GPU score of 24240. Not bad :)