3DMark 06 is the worldwide standard in advanced 3D game performance benchmarking. The software uses advanced real-time 3D game workloads to measure PC performance using a suite of DirectX 9 3D graphics tests, CPU tests, and 3D feature tests. 3DMark06 tests include all new HDR/SM3.0 graphics tests, SM2.0 graphics tests, AI and physics driven single and multiple cores or processor CPU tests and a collection of comprehensive feature tests.

The Gigabyte MA790GP-DS4H got a higher score at the CPU but it fell behind in the overall score.

At both the Crysis/Unreal Tournament 3 Demo benchmarks, the performance differences were very small.