DX11: 3DMark 11

3DMark 11 is the latest version of what probably is the most popular graphics card benchmark series. Designed to measure your PCs gaming performance 3DMark 11 makes extensive use of all the new features in DirectX 11 including tessellation, compute shaders and multi-threading. Trusted by gamers worldwide to give accurate and unbiased results, 3DMark 11 is the best way to consistently and reliably test DirectX 11 under game-like loads.

These will be the requirements:

3DMark 11 requires DirectX 11, a DirectX 11 compatible video card, and Windows Vista or Windows 7.

OS: Microsoft Windows Vista or Windows 7

Processor: 1.8 GHz dual-core Intel or AMD CPU

Memory: 1 GB of system memoryGraphics: DirectX 11 compatible graphics card

Hard drive space 1.5 GB

Audio Windows Vista / Windows 7 compatible sound card

Graphics Test 1

Based on the Deep Sea scene

No tessellation

Heavy lighting with several shadow casting lights

Graphics Test 2

Based on the Deep Sea scene

Medium tessellation

Medium lighting with few shadow casting lights

Graphics Test 3

Based on the High Temple scene

Medium tessellation

One shadow casting light

Graphics Test 4

Based on the High Temple scene

Heavy tessellation

Many shadow casting lights

Physics Test

Rigid body physics simulation with a large number of objects

This test runs at a fixed resolution regardless of the chosen preset

We test 3DMark 11 in performance mode which will give is a good indication of graphics card performance in the low, mid-range and high end graphics card segment. The application is DirectX 11, meaning only so many cards are compatible.