3DMark Vantage To Be Released Monday

[james1701]

Official release date is out. Monday April 28th.

http://www.yougamers.com/news/...vantage_has_gone_gold/

Edited the title to be clearer, this will be the official thread since I expect this to get reposted many times today

-ViRGE

 

[Aberforth]

Yes, 8800 GTX scores 4500 3D marks with vantage.

 

[theprodigalrebel]

Nice. I just hope the results give you three easy readouts: "GPU Score, CPU Score, Total Score"
It would put an end to the '3DMark scores are too easily swayed by the CPU which is largely inconsequential to gaming which renders the whole benchmark useless' arguments because people are currently too lazy to simply add the SM 2.0 and 3.0 scores.

Quoting the article for those who can't access it at work:

Final System Requirements

The final system requirements to run 3DMark Vantage Trial are:

Minimum

* x86/x64 single core CPU with SSE2 support. Performance similar to Intel Pentium D 3.2GHz or better
* Fully D3D10/SM4.0 compliant graphics card, 256MB
* 1024MB Memory
* 2GB of free disk space
* Windows Vista (Server editions not supported)

Recommended

* Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 or equivalent AMD CPU
* Fully D3D10/SM4.0 compliant graphics card, 512MB
* 2048MB Memory
* 2GB of free disk space
* Windows Vista (Server editions not supported)

Additionally, following requirements must be met to run each of the four available presets with the Advanced and Pro versions:

* Entry - 128MB DX10 Video Card and a monitor capable of displaying 1280x1024 resolution
* Performance - 256MB DX10 Video Card and a monitor capable of displaying 1280x1024 resolution
* High - 512MB DX10 Video Card and a monitor capable of displaying 1680x1050 resolution
* Extreme - 512MB DX10 Video Card and a monitor capable of displaying 1920x1200 resolution

Custom preset can be used to run the benchmark at an user-selectable resolution for individual subscores, but the 3DMark score is displayed and saved to ORB only when using one of the pre-defined presets. In other words, to get a score using the "High" and "Extreme" presets, a widescreen display is required. You probably also need a system that exceeds the recommended setup to get a reliable score at these settings - "Extreme" might be a bit too much for even the fastest systems available today.

It's funny how the minimum system requirements list a '256MB DX10 card' but there's a benchmark profile called 'Entry' for 128MB video cards.

 

[james1701]

An ATI HD 2400 and Nvidia 8400M GS are DX 10 class cards with 128MB of memory. I bet that is why they are there. For notebooks, and low end bussiness machines.

 

[CrystalBay]

Hmmm, it looks like a one time only run, using the free benchmark...

 

[Jax Omen]

Those system requirements are for the trial, which obviously runs the performance preset. Hence the 256MB requirement



*educated guess*

 

[dennilfloss]

Looks like this won't run on XP SP3 (Vista listed in minimum requirements).

 

[imported_Scoop]

Originally posted by: CrystalBay
Hmmm, it looks like a one time only run, using the free benchmark...

That's what they said about PCMark Vantage as well but I've run the trial several times.

 

[schneiderguy]

"Professional ($495)"

typo? Who would pay 500 bucks for 3dmark

 

[Throckmorton]

Originally posted by: schneiderguy
"Professional ($495)"

typo? Who would pay 500 bucks for 3dmark

A reviewer.. But the thing is, the benchmark isn't relevant with a lot of regular people able to compare to those reviewers' benchmarks

 

[ronnn]

Does it not do dx 10.1? Looks like not only a very boring game, but out of date as well. Don't expect them to sell many of these.

 

[Extelleron]

I'm hoping that the game tests will be multithreaded this time around with support for 4+ cores. Stinks that a quad is used in the CPU test but the game tests, despite being highly CPU dependent, only use 1-2 cores.

I suppose 3D Mark Vantage should remove any CPU bottleneck from the equation and really stress the GPU though; 3D Mark 06 is becoming more about who has more processing power than anything else, but w/ DX10 benchmarks, this should be a true test of graphics cards.

For $6.99, I'll probably buy the Basic Edition. It's not the most useful program for comparing between graphics cards, but 3D Mark is great for comparing your system to similar systems and comparing overclocked vs. stock performance.

 

[bryanW1995]

yeah, I think that the big money for them will be the people willing to pay $6.99 and eat a sandwich for lunch one day instead of subway

 

[CP5670]

The graphics in those screenshots don't look that impressive. I mean, they're very good, but not much better than the stuff in 3dmark06 apart from having AA.

 

[apoppin]

Originally posted by: Aberforth
Yes, 8800 GTX scores 4500 3D marks with vantage.

i wonder how it runs .. like a slideshow i bet

GT200x2/3 or r700x3/4 might look really cool

- i am also dying to play Crysis on higher than 10x7 just to get "Very High" details .. and it still micro stutters like a mo-fo with [no AA] Crossfire [or AA slide-show otherwise] or even with an equivalent single GPU.

 

[ArchAngel777]

Originally posted by: apoppin

Originally posted by: Aberforth
Yes, 8800 GTX scores 4500 3D marks with vantage.

i wonder how it runs .. like a slideshow i bet

GT200x2/3 or r700x3/4 might look really cool

- i am also dying to play Crysis on higher than 10x7 just to get "Very High" details .. and it still micro stutters like a mo-fo with [no AA] Crossfire [or AA slide-show otherwise] or even with an equivalent single GPU.

I hoping for the same thing, though I think we are looking at 2-3 generations before 1920x1200 4X/16X becomes playable on a single card.

 

[bfdd]

4500 on 8800 GTX HUH!? Jesus that's crazy Wonder what my PC will pull with dual 9600 GT's

 

[james1701]

Originally posted by: bfdd
4500 on 8800 GTX HUH!? Jesus that's crazy Wonder what my PC will pull with dual 9600 GT's

As with past releases, you would probably get about 4000-5000 depending on OC.