NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 Review: Kepler Debuts
3DMark 11 Performance
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The latest version of Futuremark's synthetic 3D gaming benchmark, 3DMark11, is specifically bound to Windows Vista and WIndows 7-based systems due to its DirectX 11 requirement, which isn't available on previous versions of Windows. 3DMark11 isn't simply a port of 3DMark Vantage to DirectX 11, though. With this latest version of the benchmark, Futuremark has incorporated four new graphics tests, a physics tests, and a new combined test. We tested the graphics cards here with 3DMark11's Extreme preset option, which uses a resolution of 1920x1080 with 4x anti-aliasing and 16x anisotropic filtering. |
The GeForce GTX 680 performed very well in Futuremark's 3DMark11 benchmark as well. Here, the GeForce GTX 680 outpaced the Radeon HD 7970 by about 16.6% and the GeForce GTX 580 by over 50%. The only cards that were able to outrun the GeForce GTX 680 in 3DMark11 were the dual-GPU powered GeForce GTX 590 and Radeon HD 6990.
