3D Performance Results

Once I completed our CPU test suite, I took some time to play some games with the TPU community to get an overall feel for gaming on the ASRock Fatal1ty X79 Champion. After a couple of days we settled in to complete our 3D benchmarking, feeling not too confident that the ASRock Fatal1ty X79 Champion was going to put on a good show due to the Turbo issues. Let's take a look at what numbers the board provided.

3DMark11

OK, now this is more like what I was hoping to see. Here the ASRock X79 Fatal1ty Champion sat right with the rest of the X79 results, Turbo problems seemingly not of any concern.

Civilization 5

Our first real-world 3D performance test comes in the form of Civilization 5, using the included benchmark. We let the game recommend us settings, and then disabled V-SYNC and AA to eliminate bottlenecks introduced by the GPU itself. Here the numbers were exactly as expected, with very little variation compared to previous results. A problem in this particular benchmark points to other issues, but the ASRock Fatal1ty X79 Champion passed with flying colors.

F1 2010

Our second real-world 3D performance test comes from CodeMasters in the form of the "F1 2010" included benchmark. We let the game recommend us settings, which included 8xAA with our HD 6950 2GB from XFX. F1 2010 proves to be one of my personal favorites, and the ASRock Fatal1ty X79 Champion noticed mid-level performance, but now this seems of no consequence.

With the CPU and 3D performance compares out of the way, we took a closer look at the other performance features offered by the ASRock Fatal1ty X79 Champion.