De mensen van Futuremark hebben hun nieuwste benchmark voor het grote publiek beschikbaar gesteld. Het gaat om de 2005-uitvoering van de populaire benchmark 3DMark. Deze release is vanaf de Tweakers.net-fileserver neer te halen als executable van ruim 283MB. Deze uitvoering ondersteunt DirectX 9.0c met shader models 2.x en 3.0, en wordt geleverd met een drietal games en twee processortests. 3DMark05 bencht een computer aan de hand van die drie spellen en de CPU-benchmarks. Vervolgens berekent de software aan de hand van de uitgevoerde tests de eindscore. Futuremark heeft voor reviewers en testlabmedewerkers enkele handige tools in 3DMark05 gebakken, zoals een image quality inspection tool, texture filtering and anti-aliasing quality inspection tool en verschillende tellers ten behoeve van de framerate en aantallen polygonen, vertexes en state changes. Ook op GoT loopt een topic over 3DMark05 waar vanalles, waaronder scores, over dit nieuwe benchmarkprogramma besproken wordt. De volledige lijst met nieuwe features in de 2005-release ziet er als volt uit:
New Features in 3DMark05 include:New engine:
- Full support for Microsoft DirectX 9.0c;
- Supporting the latest pixel- and vertex shader models (2.0, 2.a, 2.b and 3.0),
- Three new game tests, all requiring hardware for DirectX 9.0 with support for pixel shader 2.0 or higher;
- Two CPU tests, the other one presenting a multithreaded AI implementation, especially suitable for virtual or physical multiprocessor systems;
- New feature and batch size tests;
- New and improved image, filtering and anti-aliasing quality tools;
- New graph tool for in-depth performance analysis,
- The ultimate showcase of Windows-based real-time 3D graphics: Dazzling demo with original soundtrack.
New and improved tools to assist reviewers and test labs:
- Dynamically builds shaders for each material in High-Level Shader Language (HLSL) format;
- Shaders are runtime compiled to best fit the installed hardware;
- Uses exclusively shader model 2.0 and 3.0 for all vertex and pixel processing;
- Renders real-time light scattering for atmospherical effects;
- Uses improved Perspective Shadow Maps (PSM) with Depth Stencil Texture (DST) and hardware accelerated Percentage Closest Filtering (PCF) if supported.
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- Image quality inspection tool;
- Ability to export frame by frame using different options and settings;
- Pre-rendered Reference Rasterizer image database for comparison;
- Texture filtering and anti-aliasing quality inspection tool;
- Anti-Aliasing;
- Bilinear/Trilinear/Anisotropic filtering;
- Graphs of runtime statistics;
- Frame rate;
- Frame duration;
- Polygon count;
- Vertex count;
- State change count;
- Drawing batch count;
- System Info utility, which provides an in-depth analysis of the status and features of the system’s components;
- Extended Online ResultBrowser for Pro users;
- MultiComparison;
- Dynamic compare URLs;
- 18 filters for search and comparison.
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