3D Mark - Crossplatform Benchmark
The Tests
Published: 7th February 2013 | Source: Futuremark | Price: |
The Tests
The amount of customisation available for each test is far advanced from the earlier versions of 3D Mark. Ice Storm is so gentle that you could maximise the sliders on a toaster and achieve a smooth experience, whereas only the most foolhardy would try to do so with the Fire Strike benchmark. Each benchmark stresses a certain element. So, for example, Ice Storm test 1 has loads of vertices and few pixel processing overheads, whereas test 2 is the opposite. Cloud Gate, apart from looking eerily familiar to anyone who has spent time in Egosofts X games, tests shaders and geometry. Fire Strike, as you'd expect, adds yet more complications with dynamic lighting and particles.
DirectX 9 seemed so amazing when it was first around, yet now it's akin to watching Toy Story 1 after seeing Brave. Of course the eye candy doesn't come without a price, and Fire Strike will bring almost any system to its knees quite happily. Which we expect from a Futuremark benchmark. We're salivating at the thought of what future hardware will finally render this particular test meaningless in the same way that Proxycon is on current hardware.
Screenshots
These were taken on a GTX590 @ 1920x1080x4AA, so the scores at the bottom should give you some idea how quickly the demands upon your system ramp up.
Ice Storm DX9
Cloud Gate DX10
Fire Strike DX11
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Most Recent Comments
The race for world's biggest ePeen BEGINS!!!
With my Two GTX 670s at 1254MHz core and 1552MHz on my memory and a 2600K at 4,7GHz I managed to push out these scores:
http://www.3dmark.com/3dm/20036?
http://www.3dmark.com/3dm/20567?
Now, what I really wonder is how this benchmark will perform on an overkill 3D-rig "hint hint Tom".
http://www.3dmark.com/is/100193
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpvZl_wRTlg
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Originally Posted by Pendragon
I was inspired to make my own "first look" video on 3DMark. I do loads of game play videos but this is the first one like this I have done so I would love some input...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpvZl_wRTlg |
This is with my brown box 6850 and an AMD Athlon X2 3000+
Ice - 38618
Cloud - 4766
Fire - 2167
Fire Combined - 1023
Not having registered I could not see how extreme would destroy my system.
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Originally Posted by FredEx
This is a bit confusing on Ice. Perhaps because it is made for mobiles? I see some in 6 digit numbers and Tom's result down to 15,080.
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Originally Posted by FredEx
This is a bit confusing on Ice. Perhaps because it is made for mobiles? I see some in 6 digit numbers and Tom's result down to 15,080.
This is with my brown box 6850 and an AMD Athlon X2 3000+ Ice - 38618 Cloud - 4766 Fire - 2167 Fire Combined - 1023 Not having registered I could not see how extreme would destroy my system. |
I got
ice- 176844
cloud - 31375
fire - still wont run after 2 days trying to get it to work. Unless I disable sli when I get 4517.
Troll:
FX-4100 @ 4.2 Ghz
8GB Kingston HyperX 1600Mhz
MSi Radeon 7770 Ghz edition (stock clocks)
http://i.imgur.com/hOx4ee3.png
Girlfriend's Rig:
FX 8320 @ 4.2 Ghz
16GB G.Skill Ripjaws 1600 Mhz
Galaxy GTX 670 (stock clocks, boosts itself to 1110 Mhz)
http://i.imgur.com/Txp7F3v.png
Scores seem reasonably consistent with what I am seeing from others, which is good. That Fire Strike is one hell of a test tho (no pun intended)... NEVER seen this 670 taxed as hard as this before. CHALLENGE ACCEPTED!!!
Note: none of these tests have been run on the Extreme setting (freebie version... don't judge me x-p)
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