3DMark Vantage

Version and / or Patch Used: 1.01

Developer Homepage: http://www.futuremark.com

Product Homepage: http://www.futuremark.com/products/3dmarkvantage/

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3DMark Vantage is the new industry standard PC gaming performance benchmark from Futuremark, newly designed for Windows Vista and DirectX10. It includes two new graphics tests, two new CPU tests, several new feature tests, and support for the latest hardware.

3DMark Vantage is based on a completely new rendering engine, developed specifically to take full advantage of DirectX10, the new graphics API from Microsoft.

Our first gaming benchmark falls into the synthetic category. 3DMark Vantage does a good job here. As we can see, at stock both boards are just about equal. At OC the Extreme manages to get a slight lead.