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Written by Phyro
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Wednesday, 29 September 2004 |
DriverHeaven also has published an acticle about the new version of Futuremark's 3DMark. Its been 20 months since the release of 3DMark03 and that's a long time in the graphics industry. Many cards have come and gone as has the 15k barrier and so it was getting time for someone to really push the latest graphics cards to their limits. That company is Futuremark and today the NDA lifts on their latest product, 3DMark05. At Driverheaven they have been lucky enough to have access to the benchmark in advance of its launch and have run nVidia and ATI's latest and greatest cards through the benchmark with some rather surprising results. Read on to find out exactly whats new in this version of 3DMark and also to see how the results panned out...
 3DMark05 Preview
We've been very impressed with our initial look at 3DMark05,
the tests look gorgeous, the results are always repeatable and the interface is
as clean and well laid out as could be expected.
We've mentioned a number
of times throughout this article that 3DMark05
does things in the same way that the latest and future games do, looking at the
results obtained this appears to have been a success. The difference in
performance between ATI and nVidia's top cards follows the
trend set by the Source Engine, FarCry and many other DirectX 9 games. It will
be interesting to see how things change with updated drivers however it will
take some effort on nVidia's
part to catch up and to be honest they really should concentrate on real games
over a benchmark so hopefully that's what will happen.
As far as
benchmarks go, 3DMark05 is "the" graphics test to run for comparing products
or showing off your latest kit to your friends, two thumbs up from us. Let the
race to 10k begin...
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