3D Performance Results

Once we completed our CPU test suite, we took some time to play some games with the TPU community to get an overall feel for gaming on the ASRock X79 Extreme11. We settled in to complete our 3D benchmarking after a couple of days, feeling confident that the ASRock X79 Extreme11 was going to put on a good show. Let's take a look at what numbers the board provided.

3DMark11

Once we ran 3DMark11, it became clear that a trend was emerging - one that has the ASRock X79 Extreme11 as the fastest overall tested product to date securing the top spot of all boards.

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 X79 Extreme11 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 X79 Extreme11 wasn't quite as good as I had hoped, easily eclipsed by the Gigabyte X79-UD5. This is probably due to extra latency introduced by the PLX PCIe switching, as F1 2010 proves to be very sensitive to such differences.

With the CPU and 3D performance compares out of the way, I took a closer look at the other performance features offered by the ASRock X79 Extreme11.