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3DMark06 unleashed and available for download!

@ 2006/01/18

3DMark®06 is the worldwide standard in advanced 3D game performance benchmarking. A fundamental tool for every company in the PC industry as well as PC users and gamers, 3DMark06 uses advanced real-time 3D game workloads to measure PC performance using a suite of DirectX 9 3D graphics tests, CPU tests, and 3D feature tests. 3DMark06 tests include all new HDR/SM3.0 graphics tests, SM2.0 graphics tests, AI and physics driven single and multiple cores or processor CPU tests and a collection of comprehensive feature tests to reliably measure next generation gaming performance today. Futuremark's exclusive Online ResultBrowser web service tracks and compares 3DMark06 scores.

Comment from Rutar @ 2006/01/20

hmmm, 06 seems to love Nvidia

Comment from Gamer @ 2006/01/20

http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm06=34015
6282 with SLI enabled.

Comment from Rutar @ 2006/01/19

Does it work on Win 2k or is there a workaround?

Comment from wutske @ 2006/01/19

pfff, downloaded it, but the 3DMark06.dat file (whooping 1,2Gb btw) is corrupted

, and since were at 75% of our download limit, I prolly won't download it anymore this month

Aah, well yeah, not that bad, slideshow prolly makes me depressive because my v-cards sucks

Comment from Sidney @ 2006/01/19

Nv6200 can do

CPU temp topped 57°C = can be used for stressed/temp test.

Comment from jmke @ 2006/01/18

3DMark06 adds more GFX stressing benchmarks; so I'd say CPU is still as important as in 3DMark05...

which reflect real games quite correctly actually.

but 06 is more system relative than 05

Quote:

While 3DMark05 was all about the graphics hardware when generating the final score, 3DMark06 relies on the basic platform in addition. A pair of CPU tests that simulate physics and AI (using Ageia's PhysX SDK for physics and a freely available AI library) are used as part of the composite calculation that generates the end score.

So now your CPU plays a part, and 3DMark06 favours multi-core processors to boot. Its AI and physics tests are multi-threaded, meaning a dual-core CPU or processor with HyperThreading potentially has the ability to improve performance. Indeed, similar systems at HEXUS prove that, an FX-60 system besting FX-57 in 06, despite the core clock advantage of the FX-57's single core.

http://www.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=4426&page=2

and more CPU related info here: http://techgage.com/review.php?id=4007&page=5

Comment from DUR0N @ 2006/01/18

So, given that CPU scores probably will make a bigger difference, will 2K6 replace 2K1 as reference point?

Comment from jmke @ 2006/01/18

thanks for correcting and attaching, appreciated

Comment from Gamer @ 2006/01/18

yep, only your picture was stolen

Comment from jmke @ 2006/01/18

did you just attach the same image I linked?

Comment from Gamer @ 2006/01/18

lol, only 3600 without AA

Comment from jmke @ 2006/01/18

not too bad with AA enabled, here's quick comparo image from the article mentioned above

**image removed, see picture by gamer**

more mirrors here: http://hardware.gamershell.com/forum...ead.php?p=8614

Comment from Gamer @ 2006/01/18

lol, got a 3360 score, looks like AA was still active.

neat grafics though.

Comment from jmke @ 2006/01/18

A nice overview of 3DMark05 vs 3DMark06 can be found here: http://www.pcper.com/article.php?aid=199&type=expert

Comment from jmke @ 2006/01/18

+10minutes from the other thread is 20 minutes then? how long does it take to run this benchmark... ?

Comment from Gamer @ 2006/01/18

will post result in 10 minutes

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