Core i7-3960X Extreme Edition CPU Review
3DMark 11 Professional
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The 3DMark 11 measures Shader 5.0 (i.e., DirectX 11) performance. We ran this program at 1920×1200 using the “Performance” profile.
This program provides three different scores: graphics, physics and combined.
The graphics score achieved by the three CPUs was the same. This was expected, since this score measures the performance of the video card, not the processor.
The physics score measures exclusively the physics performance of the system, a process that is typically done on the CPU. Here the Core i7-3960X achieved a score 13.6% higher than the Core i7-990X’s and 83.2% higher than the AMD FX-8150’s.
The combined score shows a balance between the graphics and the physics performance achieved by each system being tested. Here the Core i7-3960X achieved a score 4.6% higher than the Core i7-990X’s and 4.3% higher than the AMD FX-8150’s.