3DMark11
3DMark 11 is the latest version of this hugely popular synthetic benchmark. Making use of DX11 features such as tessellation, compute shaders and multi-threading, it provides modern-day results and is available as a free download.
The HD 6790 is off to a good start in 3DMark 11, proving that it is more than a match for the GTX 550 Ti in this synthetic benchmark.
| Percentage faster/slower than HD 6790 |
HD 5770 | GTX 550 Ti | GTX 460 1GB | HD 6850 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| -14.1% | -23.7% | -1.6% | 12.1 |
Comparing performance with four boards, it's comfortably faster than the last-generation HD 5770 and price-comparable GTX 550 Ti.
