Benchmarks Continued:
3DMark 11:
| 3DMark 11 is the latest version of the world’s most popular benchmark. 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. |
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| 3DMark 11 at 720 resolution | 3DMark 11 at 1080 resolution |
We chose to run the the resolutions are the two settings that are at the 3DMark 11’s middle and max setting which are 720 and 1080 setting. We were quite impressed with the 720 resolution score with a P2542. The 1080 resolution score was still good and though we did notice some waviness while watching the benchmark run.
3DMark Vantage:
| 3DMark Vantage is the industry standard performance benchmark for DirectX 10 gaming PCs. It includes two graphics tests, two CPU tests and six feature tests. Trusted by gamers worldwide to give accurate and unbiased results, 3DMark Vantage is the best way to consistently and reliably test DirectX 10 under game-like loads. |
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| 3DMark Vantage GPU score of 6601 |
The 3DMark Vantage score was a little low for what we where hoping to get, but as stated on previous benchmarks the performance wasn’t anything to shake your head at.
Geeks 3D Fur Mark v1.9:
| FurMark is a very intensive OpenGL benchmark that uses fur rendering algorithms to measure the performance of the graphics card. Fur rendering is especially adapted to overheat the GPU and that’s why FurMark is also a perfect stability and stress test tool (also called GPU burner) for the graphics card.
The benchmark offers several options allowing the user to tweak the rendering: fullscreen / windowed mode, MSAA selection, window size, duration. |
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| Windowed Benchmark test | Full Screen Benchmark at 1920X1200 resolution |
The FurMark GPU stress Test is one very impressive to witness, though you must be warned by their claims on their website which even shows photo of video cards that have died while the benchmark was running. The Zotac FeForce GTX 550Ti amp! Edition did not die on us , but we did hear the fan spin up while this benchmark was running which made us a little concerned but the Zotac 550 Ti amp! pulled though with flying colors.
