Well Futuremark are the kings of graphics benchmarking, in 2006 they just gave us a graphic refresh of 2005's tests and hopes were high that "Vantage" would look great.
I spent about 2 hours waiting for the trial key to arrive and it never did, curiosity got the better of me and I lashed out the $9 US dollars or so for the basic edition, amazingly I got an email with the key 1 second later.
The first game test looks awful apart from one nice cloth effect; Futuremark cannot animate people whatsoever. The second test is set in space and looks great, think Homeworld 3 in 2010. Overall though, I'm very disappointed with this 3DMARK. There is no demo mode which was always my favourite feature and the graphics are not exactly a revolutionary jump, in fact they are miles behind modern games like Mass Effect and Crysis. What's the point of having loads of parallax occlusion mapping, ray tracing and volumetric fog etc if you can't make it look good?
So onto the results
3DMark Score P6131
CPU Score 10771
Graphics Score 5361
Q6600 @ 3000mhz
4 gigs ram
8800gtx @ 650 / 1000mhz
2 comments:
Yeah- I looked on Google for confirmation for the lack of the demo mode, because I couldn't believe it, just had thought that I simply wasn't able to find the option... I am also deeply disappointed. :-/ Gaboou
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