Futuremark developing 3DMark DirectX 11 version

[ajaidev]

"Over the past twelve and a half years, Futuremark Corporation has undoubtedly proven itself a premium provider of benchmarking solutions for high-performance and extreme performance systems, not only targeting the demands of enthusiast communities like XtremeSystems, but also serving the demands of system builders, OEMs, professionals, and the republic of gamers worldwide..."

http://www.fudzilla.com/content/view/16288/1/

This should include tessellation that would be wicked...

XtremeSystems wooot

[Calmatory]

News. "Ooh, Futuremark WILL do DX 11 Benchmark *drool*".

Yawn.

[Manicdan]

ive lost my faith in them, they use to have beautiful graphics, for a performance hit sure. but since 06 they graphics look like crap, and it runs like crap.

the dx11 benchmark better let us know what dx11 is all about. i want it to be like watching a movie

[zalbard]

Hope it's coming soon, Vantage is getting a bit old.

[flippin_waffles]

Is this another balanced and fair benchmark in the TWIMTBP program? If it is, it's just another product i'll skip, just like Vantage which I haven't so much as downloaded. Seriously, how can anyone make a popular industry benchmark that doesn't even follow industry standards and expect it to succeed. That hurt futuremark's reputation badly, and they probably won't recover from a second stunt like that. I bet Shattered Horizon will experience medioric success, due in part to it's reputation of being nv sponsored. I've no idea if it is, but it seems pretty likely.

[Vit^pr0n]

Hopefully they actually make a fair benchmark and not use something like PhysX to boost Nvidia cards scores. That was just plain annoying.

[Particle]

I await to see what exactly they do with this one too. As with many others, I never used Vantage.

[Bodkin]

My vantage was just a blip, and now they can keep on getting better, I am to young to have used pre 06, but I use it a lot for testing, my free vantage key has never been used

[BenchZowner]

Is this another balanced and fair benchmark in the TWIMTBP program? If it is, it's just another product i'll skip, just like Vantage which I haven't so much as downloaded. Seriously, how can anyone make a popular industry benchmark that doesn't even follow industry standards and expect it to succeed. That hurt futuremark's reputation badly, and they probably won't recover from a second stunt like that. I bet Shattered Horizon will experience medioric success, due in part to it's reputation of being nv sponsored. I've no idea if it is, but it seems pretty likely.

Vantage is fair tbh.
The HD5870 which is better than the GTX 285 outperforms it in all presets.

Hopefully they actually make a fair benchmark and not use something like PhysX to boost Nvidia cards scores. That was just plain annoying.

THE OFFICIAL SCORES ARE WITHOUT PhysX, so you're wrong about PhysX making it unfair and boosting nVIDIA's scores.

[K404]

Hopefully they actually make a fair benchmark and not use something like PhysX to boost Nvidia cards scores. That was just plain annoying.

That was just plain unfortunate FM were developing Vantage before nVidia toko over Aegia. FM had already added in PhysX. Not FMs fault.

[Manicdan]

the whole physx thing was just a misshap. notice most of their advertisements seemed to be from sapphire, an ATI brand. their goal was to measure cpu performance, and hopefully its better than just being used to calculate physics, since thats not really the only thing a cpu does in games. if anything the mistake they really made was basing cpu score only on physics

[flippin_waffles]

Vantage is fair tbh.
The HD5870 which is better than the GTX 285 outperforms it in all presets.

Maybe, but pre Vantage was a MUCH fairer, hardware agnostic approach to measuring performance IMO. There simply MUST MUST MUST be a NEUTRAL party to measure performance and features in the graphics industry, just like SPEC is in the cpu server industry. Just look at the cpu consumer sector; there is utter chaos, and no standard really in measuring performance and features, or in mobile for measure performance and especially battery life. It's a hodge podge of benchmark utilities slapped together to benefit whichever side of the vendor fence the reviewer falls on. And people are still using SuperPi to gauge a cpu's performance? My god that useless thing uses legacy code from the 90's!

So yeah, unless the graphics industry wants to go down that road, the defacto standard for measuring hardware performance, futuremark, better be neutral. Not to take away from Uningine though, because that seems to be a pretty successful piece of software at measuring dx11 capabilities. And obviously futuremark stood up and noticed, as prove by this press release.

[DosDuoNo]

you can slag of futuremark for all the things you want here, and granted the Physix debacle was an issue, but lest we forget that Futuremark have given us not one but 4 of the de facto standards, in gaming benchmarks 3Dmark01/03/05/06, that to this day we use to compare rigs and quantify results.

did i use vantage? no i thought it was garbage

would i use futuremark products again, based on past software? hell yeah.

i also personaly think that they have priced there products farely over the years, considering they have had such hold so much of this market.

i cant wait for the DX11 version

[SonDa5]

I use all of their benchmarks.

Good to see Direct X11 benchmark coming.

More tools and more fun IMO.

[cirons]

imo, new 3dmark is Unigine:Heaven, has everything (dx9,10,11 & tessellation,opengl) and scales with crossfire and sli.

[Manicdan]

i think what they need to do is have more smaller "games" with a variety of intense effects. sure one company might win by 10-20% in one feature, but they cant win them all unless they truly are flat out better, in which case they should.

and whatever they do, up the textures and polygons, vantage looked so 1999. sure it might have had 3D water, but the worst character models of this millennium. when i get home tonight i want to reinstall 03 and 05 and up them to 1920x1200 4xaa 16xaf and see how good the quality really is.

[K404]

the water looked like cloth and it didnt interact with the solids it touched. The spray is a circular layer and doesnt interact with the water surface.

Crap water effects.

[M.Beier]

I hope they make this one free...
Sure I have licenses for vantage, but know what? When there is an entry fee, its not 100% open competition no more...

Only guys in benchmark scene who 100% honestly with hand on their heart likes this is the ones that is working for some coperation.... Rest dispites it (most just havnt got the guts to admit, because they are afraid of sponsors reaction towards this)

[Sly Fox]

2001 was great. 03 was OK but slipping. Since then 3DMark is just crap. I'll play Crysis if i want eye candy.

[LardArse]

Vantage is much more of a 3D Mark at current times as it actually measures gpu performance and not CPU Mark06, CPU Mark 05. It may not have the coolness of it's predecessors but it is doing a good job of measuring gpu performance as it was designed to.

[Smartidiot89]

Vantage is much more of a 3D Mark at current times as it actually measures gpu performance and not CPU Mark06, CPU Mark 05. It may not have the coolness of it's predecessors but it is doing a good job of measuring gpu performance as it was designed to.

Well spoken

This is also what seems to be so great with Unigines benchmarks, there you measure GPU performance and the CPU seems to have a very little impact on anything really.

[dinos22]

I hope they make this one free...
Sure I have licenses for vantage, but know what? When there is an entry fee, its not 100% open competition no more...

Only guys in benchmark scene who 100% honestly with hand on their heart likes this is the ones that is working for some coperation.... Rest dispites it (most just havnt got the guts to admit, because they are afraid of sponsors reaction towards this)

i agree
this is the most important consideration for general community

[eXa]

Im confused... people run benchmarks for the pretty graphics? it thought the purpose was.. uh... benchmarking

[Sh1tyMcGee]

3dmark06/05 and 03 look better than Vantage

[gipsyboy]

Im confused... people run benchmarks for the pretty graphics? it thought the purpose was.. uh... benchmarking

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