We intended to share about the new graphics
card for video card testing. Please see the full product series of Nvidia and
AMD show their performance.
For 13 years, Futuremark Corporation with
headquarters in Finland is developing and publishing software for graphics
performance benchmark and for launching the new-generation game machine (in
addition to working with some other popular benchmark testers like the famous PCMark).
Although each version of 3DMark always faces some criticism, there is no GPU standard
that can compete with its popularity. There is a huge number of printed and electronic
media using 3DMark to test the graphics card of the same and different
generations. Comfortable use, diverse popularity, combination with the support
for all modern graphics technology is Futuremark’s product brand. Publicly from
February 06, 2013, the latest 3Dmark, called that way without any numbers or
anything else in its name – continued with its interesting traditions. Let's
see what it looks like and how it works on modern graphics cards on GPUs from
both AMD and Nvidia.
3DMark (2013): What's New?
New 3DMark is available in three versions. The
Basic Edition can be used free for three graphics tests (Ice Storm, Cloud Gate
and Fire Strike) and published the results online using a free user account. The
Advanced Edition is priced at $25 and provides the same test, but you can run
each test separately. It also unlocks Extreme mode for Fire Strike situations,
automatically saves the results and enabling a few standard benchmark rounds.
And finally, the Professional Edition allows you to unlock all installation
options at $995. It can also give standard output results in XML format. In
this review, we will describe the Professional Edition for you.
Therefore, 3DMark welcomes users with a brief
description of the functions and the supported platforms:
Welcome
screen
Here you can launch any available tests and
sample clips.
The test screen allows you to select any one
of the three situations, read a summarized description of it and run them
separately.
The
Test Screen
The custom screen provides detailed settings
for each test case. You can enable or disable each separate small test, select
other resolution and settings.
Custom
screen
The first test scenario is the Ice Storm. Not
being a heavy load by modern standards, it is designed for smartphone measurement
and Android add-ons or desktops with low performance. It consists of two small
trials and a brief physical impact test.
Ice Storm requires 128 MB of graphics memory
to operate. Frankly, it images are pretty rudimentary, so even the weakest
graphics card offers a high frame rate. But again, Ice Storm is directed at the
smartphones and other mobile gadgets, it's hard enough for such devices. It
runs on a Direct 11 means limited to DirectX 9 capabilities.
The second test is the Cloud Gate and it
requires 256 MB of graphics memory. It tests more resources consumption with a
wide variety of settings.
Also, it includes two sub-tests, one of the
graphics and the other of physics, Cloud Gate is nicer than Ice Storm. And this
beauty means loading higher graphics.
Running on a DirectX 11 tool, Cloud Gate is
limited to functions and DirectX 10 server to measure the basic PCs and
notebooks.
Fire Strike itself is the most sophisticated
situation in 3DMark. It requires at least 1GB of graphics memory and a large
number of installed apps.
Fire
Strike
Making the most of all the DirectX11
capabilities and default at 1920x1080 (as opposed to the two situations in
1280x720 pixels), it consists of four small trials: two in terms of graphics,
physics and a combined test.
The combined test is very beautiful, showing a
short flight of two alien creatures. Fire Strike is designed for a high-productivity
extra graphics system, consisting of a multi-GPU (CrossFireX and SLI). However,
if you find it is not enough for the system, you can run Fire Strike at Extreme
settings (2560x1440, at least 1.5 GB of graphics memory), which even made a
GeForce GTX 690 submission.
After each test situation, 3DMark releases
detailed results on each situation/mini test, illustrating them with fps charts.
Detailed
results on each situation/mini-test
They allow comparing different computers very
easily. You can publish your results on the official website of Futuremark and
compare them with other users.
3Dmark’s Professional Edition has some
additional settings related to image quality and XML output.
Some
additional settings
And finally, the last "Help" window is
where you can check the version of your program and specify some additional
settings (disabling audio, and selecting one of four interface languages that
are available, for example).
Last
"Help" window
We did not study in detail how each point was
calculated because it does not matter. Let's go straight to our test and see
which of the graphics card can operate in the new 3DMark.
