3DMark Vantage World Record Broken for Single VGA/CPU Overclocking Contest

Submitted by alexp999 on 5 April, 2010 - 15:14

April 5th 2010, Futuremark Corporation today announced the winners of the MSI/AMD Lightning VGA Overclocking contest. After all the results were tallied, the highest single VGA/CPU combined score ever recorded for 3DMark Vantage was achieved.

"Our congratulations go out to all the winners for their amazing achievements in pushing their PCs to the limits, and we are always surprised and delighted to see how quickly records get broken," said Jukka Mäkinen Ph.D., CEO of Futuremark.

"We would like to thank the efforts of all participants who entered the MSI/AMD Lightning contest 2010. This unique contest was a great way to showcase the power of next generation graphic cards. We are proud to prove that MSI R5870 Lightning is the fastest single core graphics card in the world!" Jason Lee, Marketing Director of MSI, said.

3DMark Vantage is a benchmark program from Futuremark that measures the 3D gaming performance capabilities of PCs. 3DMark software has been downloaded more than 45 million times. The 3DMark Vantage edition is currently the world’s most popular benchmark and can be downloaded for free trial from the Futuremark website at http://www.futuremark.com/benchmarks/.

For more information please visit:

http://www.futuremark.com/community/competitions/msilightning/

http://www.futuremark.com/community/halloffame/msilightning/