The Passive Gigabyte & Overclocked HIS HD 6770 meet the EVGA GTX 550 Ti

Vantage

Vantage is Futuremark’s DX10 test. It is really useful for tracking changes in a single system – especially driver changes. There are two mini-game tests, Jane Nash and Calico and also two CPU tests, but we are still focusing on the graphics performance. Here is a scene from Vantage’s second mini-game.

Let’s go right to the graphs and first check the basic tests with the default benchmark scores which are represented on the top half of the graph and then the mini-game framerates on the bottom half:

We note the rankings. Unfortunately, scores are completely meaningless when they are presented this way although they do attempt to compare one GPU’s performance to another by using two short synthetic tests of two game engines.  Let’s move on to the latest Futuremark benchmark, 3DMark11 which is DX11 only.