Gigabyte & MSI GeForce GTX 560 Launch Review - PAGE 7

Futuremark's latest 3DMark 2011 is designed for testing DirectX 11 hardware running on Windows 7 and Windows Vista the benchmark includes six all new benchmark tests that make extensive use of all the new features in DirectX 11 including tessellation, compute shaders and multi-threading.

Both the GTX 560 graphics cards again had good performance for their price range, but in this benchmark they fell short of achieving the same performance as the HD 6870. However, once the cards were overclocked they were able to again compete with more expensive graphics cards, and were even able to outperform the GTX 560 Ti.