3DMark Vantage Review Thread

[zanzabar]

why is this in dx10 it should be 10.1, unless they enabled all of the optionals in dx10 this wont be a useful bench mark in a few months with the next batch of cards

[Metroid]

Amazing,

I wonder how Futuremark will assess the marks as would be dull if a entry level score surpasses a Xtreme level. They have to do something, like scores are the same no matter which level they are being rendering, otherwise most of the people will be playing as an entry level to get higher marks. I just think if the settings are Xtreme it should have something else. Well we will see it next week.

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why is this in dx10 it should be 10.1, unless they enabled all of the optionals in dx10 this wont be a useful bench mark in a few months with the next batch of cards

Agreed, as they had more than sufficient time to make the changes.

Edit: I think it is a DX10.1 too but it does not say it. Probably when they refer DX10 means DX10.*. By the way they also should set 3D Mark Vantage as a default graphic benchmark and remove 3DMark 06 from the scene.

Metroid.

[Creek Tha Gray]

My system

and now my pc looks like what it scale is doing is pushing the recomended system to the left.

[g1raffe]

Time to upgrade to Vista..

[Origin_Unknown]

its released now?

[BenchZowner]

its released now?

How 'bout.... nope

[Manicdan]

if you click on the link with the different presests it goes over the scoring method

they make one comparable to the next, hopefully it works well in the end. but i would rather it just be 4 different options where we normally left the searching at "default"

[iTravis]

3 more days....really can't wait.

[BenchZowner]

3 more days....really can't wait.

Don't hold your breath.
Hold it...no don't.
It's NOT coming out in 3 days.

[jas420221]

Sooo...ummmm.....what is there to review exactly?

That was my question really...

It was the first thing we found out and it's been known since the very start of the development.



Don't think so. If PhysX is to survive, AMD has to be on board. With sole support from NVIDIA, PhysX will fail miserably.

//Andreas

I think the guy was talking about Nvidia cards having the advantage in Vantage, not physX in general...

[Kinc]

A bird told me that cpu-test 2 (physics test) runs better on the cpu.

[jas420221]

A bird told me that cpu-test 2 (physics test) renders better on the cpu than by a dedicated ppu.

Well thats interesting...I was thinking just the opposite! Well thats good news I suppose for all those that DONT have a dedicated PPU and dont want to buy one to be a benching queen!!

[Kinc]

Well thats interesting...I was thinking just the opposite! Well thats good news I suppose for all those that DONT have a dedicated PPU and dont want to buy one to be a benching queen!!

I wouldnt be suprised if it is just the opposite as you say though. The horse power in the discrete ppu card now are very weak. But if it were to run good on a G92 than I think there might be something in it.

[krogen]

Aren't there only a few physics cards out there... Which are all based on the same AGEIA chip? What good does benchmarking physics do then? IE, everyone getting the same score?

If there's little to no hardware to benchmark on why even bench it?

[ToTTenTranz]

Aren't there only a few physics cards out there... Which are all based on the same AGEIA chip? What good does benchmarking physics do then? IE, everyone getting the same score?

If there's little to no hardware to benchmark on why even bench it?

Maybe they already have some performance numbers from the CUDA thing.

[Sr7]

Aren't there only a few physics cards out there... Which are all based on the same AGEIA chip? What good does benchmarking physics do then? IE, everyone getting the same score?

If there's little to no hardware to benchmark on why even bench it?

Um.. because of future gens of AGEIA products, comparisons between AGEIA and CPU... etc.

[zanzabar]

Um.. because of future gens of AGEIA products, comparisons between AGEIA and CPU... etc.

there arnt going to be NV bought them to kill them so they could make a gpu product with their code, there will be no more PPu cards

[madcho]

vantage is the next fake from 3D's industry

[Sr7]

there arnt going to be NV bought them to kill them so they could make a gpu product with their code, there will be no more PPu cards

No , but I'm explaining the original intention of the physics test, prior to that event.

The acquisition was a recent development.

[Scimitar]

No countdown timer at FM.
No early reviews.
No mention of the release date at FM's forums.

I am seriously doubting this thing is going to be released tomorrow.

[BenchZowner]

It's NOT going to be released tomorrow
We've been told that we'll have a week or a bit more to preview it before it gets released to the public, so... no, it's not going to be released tomorrow.

[Cooper]

It's NOT going to be released tomorrow
We've been told that we'll have a week or a bit more to preview it before it gets released to the public, so... no, it's not going to be released tomorrow.

Who is "we" ?

[BenchZowner]

As in we, I meant some overclockers, and some of the media ( the press ) around the globe

[iTravis]

It's NOT going to be released tomorrow
We've been told that we'll have a week or a bit more to preview it before it gets released to the public, so... no, it's not going to be released tomorrow.

Sighhhhhhhhhh.........

[Bo_Fox]

Ummmmm... . why is this thread stickied already if Vantage has never been released yet, with no ETA---let alone a "review"?

Until then, this thread is only attracting posts that are, IMHO, not worthy of reading (a big waste of time for me). I'd wait until it's released first and then sticky it. At least if it is, for sure, gonna be out 3 days from now.