3DMark Vantage Review Thread

[Reinvented]

They had a nice discount/upgrade price for 3D Mark 06 users.

can't wait to run this

[jas420221]

They had a nice discount/upgrade price for 3D Mark 06 users.

can't wait to run this

They do? I bought 06... how do I get that discount????

[Reinvented]

Got it in an email..

Dear Futuremark Customer:

We have released our latest 3DMark® Benchmark: 3DMark® Vantage for Windows Vista™. As a current 3DMark06 user, we would like to let you know you may purchase the upgrade version of 3DMark Vantage for a discounted price of $15 (download version): take advantage of your discount here.

3DMark® Vantage delivers a modern gaming performance benchmark to measure native DirectX 10 and multi-core CPU performance with large amounts of physics, AI and graphics on PC’s running Microsoft® Windows Vista®. 3DMark Vantage shows the user where their gaming system performs at its peak or doesn’t have the horsepower, and how to get the most performance possible out of their hardware for today’s and tomorrow’s games. 3DMark Vantage is easy enough for even the most casual enthusiast to use yet supports in-depth, professional industry grade testing. 3DMark® Vantage is the premium benchmark for evaluating the latest generation of gaming hardware!

Comprehensive Result Analyzer
3DMark Vantage's comprehensive online Result Analyzer tool provides an invaluable insight into the factual gaming performance of your computer. The Online ResultBrowser (ORB) is designed and developed specially for 3DMark Vantage Advanced and Professional Edition users. In addition to the normal result search & compare functionalities you get unlimited project storage, advanced search options and much more. The Pro ORB extends 3DMark Vantage to the extreme!

3DMark Vantage Advanced Features

Full Support of Microsoft®Direct3D_10 ,SM4.0* Advanced Post Processing effects
GPU Simulated Physics
Heavily Multi-Threaded AI/Physics Workloads
Support for PPU Hardware Acceleration
4 Preset Test Settings up to Extreme
More tools, options and settings than ever before
Approved for private and non-commercial Use Only

Click here to take advantage of your discount!

Happy Benchmarking!
Futuremark

[korda]

They do? I bought 06... how do I get that discount????

Get the "Advanced Upgrade" and save a few bucks. I did. :p

http://shop.futuremark.com/shop/prod...=3dmarkvantage

[Gunslinger]

The discount is only $5, and you have to have the registration number handy for your '06 purchase.

[RaKLeZ]

This 3dmark is really nothing special... the graphic is outdated, looks worse than many PC games currently on the market... for me it looks even worse than 3dmark05... I expected a lot more... huge disappointment...

[mascaras]

i tryed run again the Trial version and no problem !




edit: already run 3 times the Trial version !

so that means you can run the times you want !


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[eric66]

This 3dmark is really nothing special... the graphic is outdated, looks worse than many PC games currently on the market... for me it looks even worse than 3dmark05... I expected a lot more... huge disappointment...

haha so true

[Genius_pt]

i tryed run again the Trial version and no problem !




edit: already run 3 times the Trial version !

so that means you can run the times you want !


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That's great news

[Marioace]

i tryed run again the Trial version and no problem !




edit: already run 3 times the Trial version !

so that means you can run the times you want !


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yes but only 1 Submit

[vmsein]

Tom's Hardware has a write-up on Vantage here: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/...tage,1919.html

[BenchZowner]

Hey guys ( 'n' girls ),

I'd like to let you know that I've just published the article/review of 3D Mark Vantage.
I believe it's a good read for both gamers/"average joe" users & overclockers ( addicted or not, extreme or not ).

Let me quote some stuff from the review:

Finally! Two years and some months upon the release of 3D Mark06 ( back in January 2006 ) FutureMark is proud to announce the release of their latest installment of the 3D Mark Series today.
How's it called, 3D Mark08 ? Nope, it's name is Vantage, 3D Mark Vantage ( no, I'm not a James Bond fan )
Wait a second. You're talking about something called 3D Mark blah blah, that's good to know, but... what's the purpose/usage of this program ?
FutureMark's 3D Mark Series are synthetic benchmarks, applications that stress the capabilities of your system's graphics card to measure its performance and give you a score that you can use to compare your graphics card & system's performance in gaming with your friends and a big database of user submitted results on FutureMark's online comparison service called ORB ( Online Result Browser ).

Everytime a new 3D Mark is being released there are hundreds of users downloading the trial version to check the "breathtaking" graphics and their high end systems brought down to their knees, attaining low framerates and low 3D Mark scores. That's 3D Mark's purpose, to push the users systems to the limits. When FutureMark released 3D Mark06 the very best computers were scoring 5000 to 7000 and the benchmark was running like a slideshow. Everytime 3D Mark was there to "show us" the graphics revolution and what the new hardware features could bring us.

As for the users, there are two kinds of users:
The "average" PC users or gamers who will run 3D Mark Vantage once or maybe twice, and benchmarkers, people who like ( or should I say love ) running benchmarks and overclocking & tweaking their systems to reach the highest scores in various benchmarks, including the benchmarks of the 3D Mark Series. Along with those benchmarkers, there are some crazy people, the so-called "Extreme Overclockers" who compete on various benchmarks hunting the top scores using extreme cooling techniques and high voltages and various software & hardware tweaks & modifications to overclock their systems to the "absolute" max.
The "Extreme Overclockers" enjoy overclocking & tweaking their hardware and running 3D Mark and other benchmarks as a "hobby", they don't care if the scores are reflected in real-life gaming.
On the other side there are normal people who'd like to use a simple program as a judgment factor to compare graphics cards & PCs performance in gaming, and they don't like 3D Mark once they realise that the scores do not reflect the real-life gaming performance of the cards/systems compared.
Hopefully the brand new 3D Mark Vantage will solve these issues, and satisfy both the gamers looking for something as a performance index/indicator and the benchmarkers.
We'll find out soon in this review, but let me start by saying that... with 3D Mark Vantage FutureMark made a big step ahead.

Obviously the higher the stress the benchmark puts on the CPU, the better it will scale, and the "Entry" preset is surely the most CPU raw power hog in 3D Mark Vantage because it's using a low resolution ( 1024x768 ) and NoAA NoAF and low graphics quality & effects, which make it highly CPU dependent.
This is reflected in the total score figures as you can see.
Our scored nearly got doubled when we switched from using 1 CPU Core to 2 CPU Cores!
Switching from 2 Cores to 3 Cores gave us ~25% higher total score, and from 3 Cores to 4 Cores gave us ~14% higher score.
The gains in "Performance" preset are lower, but still significant to those who're participating in the overclocking rankings on the net.
At "High" we gained 600pts from 1 Core to 2 Cores, and then about 200pts for each extra Core, still good for the overclocking rankings ( but a 8 core system would be a overkill ).
At the "Extreme" preset the gains are marginal, not worth mentioning IMO.

Read the full review, here

[jas420221]

Nice review...!! Though you should learn how to get rid of " ( ) ". Its either another sentence, or it doesnt belong. You have way too many parenthesis though. my old professors woudl have pwned me if I turned that in. Good thing it wasnt for that guy!!

[Natalia]

This 3DMark still a pile of crap when it comes to testing the impact of SLi, Tri-SLi, and Quad-SLi?

[BenchZowner]

Don't think so Natalia

[TheHardCase]

LMFAO it looks like a old cartoon

[Reinvented]

LMFAO it looks like a old cartoon

I will somewhat agree. The first thing that came to mind was a game called "No One Lives Forever". lol

[gallardo]

Just ran it... 31xx points.

And I ask myself... why so low? It didn't show me anything mind bending. Crysis could do ok on my setup on medium and it would be 2 better looking than this.

I'm sorry, but I've actually spent more time waiting for the bloody thing to load the tests than on the benchmark itself. 2 game tests, 2 cpu tests (if I'm wrong about the counting, I'm sorry, but it was just all so quick I didn't even have time to count the tests) and poof? That's it?
Jane Nash is just awfully ugly. Lots of bloom and blur to try and cover up the bad textures and modelling, but they're not fooling anyone.
The second test was a little better, but still... the asteroids looked like crap (quite literally) and the lighting seemed really, really wierd. But once again, they tried to compensate with extra HDR and bloom and all those photo non-realistic crap.
And although at least the little ships looked good from a distance, when you saw them up close... the textures were on the same level as the rest of the textures in Vantage. Sewer level that is.

Don't even get me started on the whole registration thing... needing a key to run free, trial software... I swear if I get even one unsolicited e-mail from Futuremark I will take them to court (yeah, I unchecked those 2 thingies) and sue them for spamming me after already letting me down with their product.


So basically, to wrap up my little "review".... what Futuremark managed to achieve here is a pretty interface for launching a bad benchmark. Congratulations! It only took you 2 bloody years. I think you guys need to find the people who quit or were fired after the launch of 3dmark 2005 and get them back on the team. And fire the others.

... Ageia physics my arse!

[TheHardCase]

Just ran it... 31xx points.

And I ask myself... why so low? It didn't show me anything mind bending. Crysis could do ok on my setup on medium and it would be 2 better looking than this.

I'm sorry, but I've actually spent more time waiting for the bloody thing to load the tests than on the benchmark itself. 2 game tests, 2 cpu tests (if I'm wrong about the counting, I'm sorry, but it was just all so quick I didn't even have time to count the tests) and poof? That's it?
Jane Nash is just awfully ugly. Lots of bloom and blur to try and cover up the bad textures and modelling, but they're not fooling anyone.
The second test was a little better, but still... the asteroids looked like crap (quite literally) and the lighting seemed really, really wierd. But once again, they tried to compensate with extra HDR and bloom and all those photo non-realistic crap.
And although at least the little ships looked good from a distance, when you saw them up close... the textures were on the same level as the rest of the textures in Vantage. Sewer level that is.

Don't even get me started on the whole registration thing... needing a key to run free, trial software... I swear if I get even one unsolicited e-mail from Futuremark I will take them to court (yeah, I unchecked those 2 thingies) and sue them for spamming me after already letting me down with their product.


So basically, to wrap up my little "review".... what Futuremark managed to achieve here is a pretty interface for launching a bad benchmark. Congratulations! It only took you 2 bloody years. I think you guys need to find the people who quit or were fired after the launch of 3dmark 2005 and get them back on the team. And fire the others.

... Ageia physics my arse!

I agree 100%, I thought it was just funny how bad it looks

[Cooper]

2-3 years old games look and perform alot better than this poo

[bluehaze]

Just tried it out myself 11k...graphics are meh..definitely not the same effect as running 3dmark06 for the first time. Still experimenting seems like a decent benchmark with all the different tests just not sure this is worth the 15 bucks it cost me LOL I guess after awhile you don't watch the benchmark anyway just click run and look at your score at the end but it really seems like they didn't spend much time at all on this benchmark seems more like they just de optimized code to make it run worse as graphics like this in real games net me 100-200 FPS versus the 35 or so I get in this program.

Also another strange thing CPU score acounts for over 1/2 of my total 3dmark score, i thought this was supposed to be a graphics benchmark?

I guess it will flesh out over time haven't played with it enough but so far this just seems like a benchmark to cater to the LN2 crowd running CPU's at insane clocks for short amounts of time which is fine if it's explained that is what it is before you click the buy button but it's not and I kind of feel a bit ripped off right now. At least it was only 15 bucks and n ot 50 or somethiing like a new game would cost me LOL

My advice, save your money and just use the Crysis benchmark unless benchiing is your greatest enjoyment and you want evry benchmark in existence to play with in which case 15 bucks is really not alot to spend to play this "benchmark"

Cheers

[Peakr]

Ya still trying to figure out why this Jane Nash bench is only netting me 12-18fps with graphics that are so yesterday. The new calico looks pretty sweet, cept for the fuzzy asteriods.

[stocius]

Why? Why? Oh why did I buy this ?

[inCore]

Because you want to enlarge your E-penis by getting higher scores?

[Scimitar]

The water in Jane Nash is done really well. The action is ok. The guys shooting at Jane are absolutely pathetic. Looks like graphics from the late 90s. Too much HDR on Jane for my tastes.

New Calico is really sweet, I love it, especially when the planet gets bombed.

The CPU tests are meh, about the same as my opinion of the cpu tests in 06.

New Calico should look really sweet at Extreme Preset, unfortunately my 8800GT delivers an absolute slideshow at those settings.