Best Value DirectX 11 Card Revealed by 3DMark 11 Overclocking Competition

SARATOGA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Futuremark® Corporation today announced the winners of its worldwide 3DMark®11 Overclocking Challenge which saw entries from more than 117,000 contestants in 133 countries. Top winners Elmore and DFORDOG each won USD 1000 with runner-up winners taking home a selection of hardware prizes from competition sponsors MSI, Enermax, Kingmax, InWin and GlacialTech.

“We're glad to see that the 3DMark 11 Overclocking Challenge attracted gamers and Overclockers worldwide to push the DirectX 11 gaming performance of their graphics cards”

The contest featured two challenges. In the first, people competed to achieve the highest performance versus cost score with NVIDIA-based graphics cards. The card used by the overall winner and all the other entries at the top of the leaderboard was the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 which has a MSRP of USD 169.99. The second competition challenge saw contestants battling to get the highest 3DMark 11 score using a single MSI N480 GTX Lightning graphics card.

NVIDIA PERFORMANCE VERSUS COST CHALLENGE

Record the best "bang for the buck" score, a number calculated from the 3DMark 11 score divided by the MSRP cost of the NVIDIA-based graphics card used.

1st Place	DFORDOG
Score	34.43 3DMarks per dollar (P5853 3DMarks)
GPU	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 (MSRP USD 169.99)
CPU	Intel Core i7-980X Processor
Result details	http://3dmark.com/3dm11/349477

MSI LIGHTNING CHALLENGE

Record the highest 3DMark 11 score using an MSI N480 GTX Lightning graphics card.

1st Place	Elmore
Score	P9277 3DMarks
GPU	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480
CPU	Intel Core i7-980X Processor
Result details	http://3dmark.com/3dm11/236324

Competition details:

http://www.3dmark.com/competitions/3dmark-11-oc-challenge/

"Benchmarking isn't just about setting the highest scores," said Jukka Mäkinen, Futuremark CEO. "3DMark and its huge online results database offer a great way to see which components offer the best value for money so you can make informed decisions when planning an upgrade."

"We're glad to see that the 3DMark 11 Overclocking Challenge attracted gamers and Overclockers worldwide to push the DirectX 11 gaming performance of their graphics cards," said Jason Lee, MSI Director of Component Marketing. "The superb design of the N480GTX Lightning graphics card was proven by a stunning overclock of nearly 100% performance improvement compared to a standard GeForce GTX 480 card. That is what MSI always tries to do - Insist on the best."

3DMark 11 is the latest version of the world's most popular benchmark for measuring the 3D graphics performance of gaming PCs. 3DMark 11 uses a native DirectX 11 engine designed to make extensive use of all the new features in DirectX 11, including tessellation, compute shaders and multi-threading. 3DMark 11 Basic Edition offers an unlimited number of runs without registration or expiry and is available now as a free download from http://www.3dmark.com

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