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 Gigabyte A75-UD4H. After a couple of days we settled in to complete our 3D benchmarking, feeling confident that the A75-UD4H was going to put on a good show. Let's take a look at what numbers the board provided.

3DMark11

3DMark11 serves as a good example for what this platform is capable of. Although still at the bottom, it's not by much, and given that we know the CPU performance is a bit low based on the other, 3DMark helps serve to show that the lack of CPU power doesn't really affect GPU performance too much.

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. Performance is exactly where we expected it, showing no significant issues.

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 newly added HD 6950 2 GB from Sapphire. We were quite surprised by the results here, and that's an understatement. Of course, updated drivers are going to have their effect as well, but this is the perfect example of just how really good this platform is.