After the mitigated success of 3Dmark Vantage, Futuremark is back with a new version of its flagship benchmark: 3DMark11. 11 for 2011 of course but also for Direct3D 11, the new version of 3Dmark being based exclusively on the latest version of the Microsoft graphics API. After experiencing the preview, we decided to share our initial observations on the benchmark, as well as a few results.