3D Performance Results

Once I completed my CPU test suite, I took some time to play some games with the TPU community to get an overall feel for gaming on the B75M-D3H. After a couple of days, we settled in to complete our 3D benchmarking, feeling confident that the Gigabyte B75M-D3H was going to put on a good show. Let's take a look at what numbers the board had provided.

3DMark11

With 3DMark11, results were a bit lower overall, but still sitting with other 3770K results.

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 Gigabyte B75M-D3H 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 my HD6950 2GB from XFX. The Gigabyte B75M-D3H did fairly well here.

With the CPU and 3D performance comparison out of the way, we took a closer look at the other performance features offered by the Gigabyte GA-X79-UD5.