ASUS Crosshair V Formula ‘Bulldozer’ Motherboard Review

Futuremark 3DMark11 Synthetic Gaming Benchmark

3DMark 11 is the latest version of the worlds most popular benchmark for measuring the 3D graphics performance of gaming PCs. 3DMark 11 uses a native DirectX 11 engine designed to make extensive use of all the new features in DirectX 11, including tessellation, compute shaders and multi-threading.

Since Futuremark is releasing 3DMark11 today we decided to run the benchmark at both performance and extreme presets to see how our hardware will run.

ASUS Crosshair V Formula 990FX 3DMark11 Extreme Preset Benchmark Results

ASUS Crosshair V Formula 990FX 3DMark11 Performance Preset Benchmark Results

Benchmark results: The extreme preset of Futuremark 3DMark 11 yielded results that show a slight difference between our two systems today. The ASUS Crosshair IV Formula with the AMD FX-8150 scored 1651 3DMarks and took the lead with 40 points in the overall score. The Graphics score of the AMD FX-8150 was 1494 3DMarks and took the lead by 33 points. The overall score showed a difference of ~2.5%, this isn’t nearly the margin we were expecting. The performance preset gave us a slightly larger margin of 4.2% with the FX-8150 in the lead.