PCGH: 3DMark Vantage - huge GPU and CPU comparisson

[Fr3ak]

PC Games Hardware benched all weekend long. Futuremark's newest 3DMark called vantage was tested with almost every Direct X 10 videocard and a bunch of CPUs, stock as well as overclocked ones.



Have a look at the benchmarks:
http://www.pcgameshardware.de/&menu=...=641615&page=1
(click the picture to enlarge it)

Full story (German):
http://www.pcgameshardware.de/aid,64...enchmark-Test/

Some conclusions we made:
- Vantage runs as fast on Vista without SP1 as on Vista with SP1 installed.
- Vantage scales well with multi GPU and multi CPU solutions.
- a AGEIA physics card gives a boost of about 1.500 points in the CPU score and 200 points for the final score.
- LOD does not work (at least using 175.12)
- Fastest video card is the Nvidia 9800 GX2 in Quad-SLI-mode

I did some benching on air cooling and managed to get close to 20k with a single CPU system. See http://extreme.pcgameshardware.de/in...reme-test.html for more details.

Video of the game tests:
http://www.pcgameshardware.de/aid,64...ests_im_Video/