Today FutureMark Corporation is releasing the latest version in the 3DMark series called 3DMark05. It is said to push the technology bar by exclusively using shader models 2 and 3 for all pixel and vertex processing which are complied using DX9c libraries, making 3DMark05 a true DX9 benchmark.

recommeneded read: http://techreport.com/etc/2004q3/3dmark05/index.x?pg=1

http://www.tweaktown.com/document.ph...rticle&dId=706
http://accelenation.com/?ac.id.233.1
http://www.hardware-mag.de/dlcenter.php?id=663
http://www.3dvelocity.com/articles/3dm05/3dm05.htm
http://www.driverheaven.net/articles/3dmark--05/



Official Download mirror list: http://www.futuremark.com/download/?3dmark05.shtml

they are using uncompressed 1600x1200 screenshots at 1mb+ .. DOH

their server is slow as hell..

here are screenies I was able to grab (resized, of course) www.madshrimps.be/upload/jmke/3DMark05/

3DMark05 review and GPU performance analysis at Elite Bastards
http://www.elitebastards.com/page.ph...=1&comments=1=

http://accelenation.com/?ac.id.233.1
http://www.hardware-mag.de/dlcenter.php?id=663
http://www.3dvelocity.com/articles/3dm05/3dm05.htm
http://www.driverheaven.net/articles/3dmark--05/


highly recommended, great comparison with ALL popular cards http://techreport.com/etc/2004q3/3dmark05/index.x?pg=1

Local (.BE) fast download link: http://games.telenet.be/index.php?act=one&nid=14971

Another good writeup by the X-Bit labs boys
http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/vid.../3dmark05.html

lots of videocards tested

Direct download link offered by www.epox.org
http://www.epox.org/3dmark05/3DMark0..._installer.exe

Fast Dutch .NL mirror
http://files.tweakers.net/Futuremark..._installer.exe