3DMark Vantage budget was five million dollars
 

We spoke with Oliver Baltuch, President of Futuremark Corporation. Oliver stated that the costs of developing benchmarks were going through the roof, and that was the main reasons why the company changed the policy of charging for the basic multi-run version. The biggest issue Futuremark found was that companies were using the free version to advertise their systems, from AIB manufacturers to system integrators.

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