Synthetic DirectX-11 Benchmarks

3DMark

The new 3DMark includes everything you need to benchmark your hardware. With three all new tests you can bench everything from smartphones and tablets, to notebooks and home PCs, to the latest high-end, multi-GPU gaming desktops. And it’s not just for Windows. With 3DMark you can compare your scores with Android and iOS devices too. It’s the most powerful and flexible 3DMark we’ve ever created.

Kicking off the DX11 Benchmarks, both 3DMark FireStrike and Cloud Gate get big gains with the 14.2 Beta drivers. FireStrike improves by a little over 10% and Cloud Gate by over 8%.

Ice Storm rounds out the 3DMark graphics tests and experience a 9% increase in performance

3DMark 11

3DMark 11 is a DirectX 11 video card benchmark test for Windows that is designed to measure your PC’s gaming performance. 3DMark 11 makes extensive use of DirectX 11 features including tessellation, compute shaders and multi-threading. Trusted by gamers worldwide to give accurate and unbiased results, 3DMark 11 is the best way to consistently and reliably test DirectX 11 under game-like loads.

3DMark 11 experiences a 10% increase in performance.

ComputeMark 2.1

Only about 6% in ComputeMark

Unigine Heaven Benchmark

Heaven Benchmark is a DirectX 11 GPU benchmark based on advanced Unigine engine from Unigine Corp. It reveals the enchanting magic of floating islands with a tiny village hidden in the cloudy skies.

There is a gain of a little over 3 FPS in the Heaven Benchmark, but that amounts to over 17%. Let’s see what kind of performance gains we can get in actual games.