Sapphire Pure Black X58 Motherboard Review

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Futuremark 3DMark 11 Synthetic Benchmark

3DMark 11 Screenshot

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.

3DMark 11 Settings

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.

3DMark 11 Benchamrk Results

Benchmark results: The Sapphire Pure Black X58 motherboard fell just shy of our top performing Gigabyte P67A-UD4 motherboard. When running the performance preset of 3DMark 11 the Sapphire Pure Black X58 system was 80 3DMarks or 1.65% behind and 9 3DMarks or .56% behind the Gigabyte P67A-UD4.

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