3DMark 11 out on 30th November

[Junos]

Saw this at Xtreme 3D Team -section already, but I think this deserves a thread in the News section.

3DMark 11 is the latest version of the world’s most popular benchmark. Designed to measure your PC’s gaming performance 3DMark 11 makes extensive use of all the new features in DirectX 11 including tessellation, compute shaders and multi-threading. Trusted by gamers worldwide to give accurate and unbiased results, 3DMark 11 is the best way to consistently and reliably test DirectX 11 under game-like loads.

3DMark 11 will be released November 30, 2010

http://www.3dmark.com

Preview/trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eY_En9VcwM

[Manicdan]

great.

for those who probably will not click the link:
includes 4 games (the 2 scenes rendered with 2 settings)
physics test
combined test (seems to be physics in a game)
and a demo (of the 2 videos weve seen), which also scales the settings based on your PC

FREE EDITION INCLUDES:
only the Performance preset
limited saved scores (nothing about limiting score submissions)

ADVANCED (20$, 15 if you have vantage advanced):
no adds
all 3 presets (entry, performance, extreme)

PRO: (alot of $s)
image quality tool (would be nice to know if you can still choose to save a certain frame during a test like 06 let you)

the rest is kinda expected.

[Manicdan]

double posted

[Leeghoofd]

ow darn, even more torture for our GPUs and CPUs :p

[The Duke]

very cool cant wait for it to be here

[Pantsu]

Just in time for the 6900 and 570 reviews.

[Power5]

My computer already melted.

[[XC] hipno650]

My computer already melted.

well if you plan to run it on any of the comp in your sig then there will be no melting of any kind. 3Dmark11 is DX11 only no DX10 support.

looks great, can't wait to try it out!

[safan80]

With how cheap vantage looked I am looking forward to this.

[Tim]

Coming closer and closer to photo realistic graphics. Unbelievable.

[RPGWiZaRD]

Yea Vantage looked really bad compared to the 2 demos we already saw a hint of. I always saw 3DMark more like a tech demo than real representative of beautiful gfx (OK the old Nature demos were quite good) but this time they seemed to have done a better job than 3DMar05 - Vantage.

[Loque]

got the pre order upgrade version

damn.. $995 for the pro version, why so expensive ?

[Manicdan]

got the pre order upgrade version

damn.. $995 for the pro version, why so expensive ?

cause your a business whos using their product publicly for advertisement of specs. im not sure if a reviewer falls under this category or if its really just the big guys (ie: dell)

im sure their rules of use will go over this.

[hurrdurr]

It comes before the 6900s are released - the extensive use of DX11 features should make the 580's far superior than any card AMD has to offer, including the 5970 obviously that is going to (has to) change with the introduction of 6970, but for 13 days GTX 580's will be super kings

[zanzabar]

dose a physics test mean no physX, im really hoping that it dose.

It comes before the 6900s are released - the extensive use of DX11 features should make the 580's far superior than any card AMD has to offer, including the 5970 obviously that is going to (has to) change with the introduction of 6970, but for 13 days GTX 580's will be super kings

that depends what tessellation mode they use, if they use a non tessellation dx11 effect or the one that ati is good at they should still keep it for single card.

what about PCMark Vantage? dont they usually release the two (3DM, PCM) close to each other?

PCMV came out like a year to a year and half before 3DM and they only change when the base kernel changes, vista and 7 are the same base so i would not expect one until windows8 in 2-3 years

[Manicdan]

dose a physics test mean no physX, im really hoping that it dose.

it says hardware supported bullet physics if i read correctly

[Computurd]

what about PCMark Vantage? dont they usually release the two (3DM, PCM) close to each other?

[SKYMTL]

Physics is OpenCL from my understanding.

[zanzabar]

Physics is OpenCL from my understanding.

i really hope that they make it wont do it on gpu by default then

[gatecrasherlok]

Nice can't wait for its release which is sooner than I was expecting.

[PatRaceTin]

I need to buy new card that support DX11

[Solus Corvus]

Physics is OpenCL from my understanding.

Yay.

i really hope that they make it wont do it on gpu by default then

Why not?

[zanzabar]

Yay.


Why not?

the cpu test is for the cpu, when u run it on the gpu its a cheat and not showing what its intended to or atleast that was the rules with the last one. if its a cpu test it should test the cpu though as when u let a gpu go unloaded and do some kind of cuda or OCL to the whole gpu its not a representative test of what it would do while gaming. now for a feature test or not by default thats fine but making it do it by default just makes it so people cheat inadvertently by not knowing better.

[Solus Corvus]

the cpu test is for the cpu, when u run it on the gpu its a cheat and not showing what its intended to or atleast that was the rules with the last one. if its a cpu test it should test the cpu though as when u let a gpu go unloaded and do some kind of cuda or OCL to the whole gpu its not a representative test of what it would do while gaming. now for a feature test or not by default thats fine but making it do it by default just makes it so people cheat inadvertently by not knowing better.

I think they should have tests that relate to things that actually affect game performance. If the industry is moving towards GPU physics then I think this "futuristic" physics test should default to the GPU. To test the CPU they could include an AI test.

[STEvil]

the cpu test is for the cpu, when u run it on the gpu its a cheat and not showing what its intended to or atleast that was the rules with the last one. if its a cpu test it should test the cpu though as when u let a gpu go unloaded and do some kind of cuda or OCL to the whole gpu its not a representative test of what it would do while gaming. now for a feature test or not by default thats fine but making it do it by default just makes it so people cheat inadvertently by not knowing better.

Running the vantage test on GPU with intent to cheat is a cheat, yes. Running it on GPU with intent to compare to other GPU's is fine. Given the limited testing ability of vantage its a little pointless for sure, though.