3DMark Vantage is a PC benchmark suite designed to test the DirectX10 performance of your graphics card. We’ve been making 3DMark for over 10 years, with each new edition using the latest 3D technology to determine real-world performance.

A 3DMark score is an overall measure of your system’s 3D gaming capabilities, based on comprehensive real-time 3D graphics and processor tests. By comparing your score with those submitted by millions of other gamers you can see how your gaming rig performs, making it easier to choose the most effective upgrades or finding other ways to optimize your system.

3DMark is widely used by the PC industry, press and media as well as individual users and gamers, for comparing performance levels between whole systems or even specific components.

Lots of static objects

Lots of complex dynamic skinned objects

Cascaded shadow maps using PCF filtering

Very few instanced objects

No ray-marching (volumetric) effects

Cloth simulation

Anisotropic materials (math-heavy)

Caustics

Hierarchical rendering passes to render water reflection and refractio

Almost entirely consists of moving objects

No skinned objects

Variance shadow mapping shadows

Lots of instanced objects

Local and global ray-tracing effects (Parallax Occlusion Mapping, True Impostors and volumetric fog)

Processor

Requirement: SSE2 support

Recommendation: A dual-core processor with performance equivalent to Intel Core 2 Duo E6600, AMD Athlon X2 6000+, or higher

Graphics Card

Requirement: Fully DirectX10-compliant graphics hardware

Recommended: 512MB of video memory (Needed to run every Preset)

Display Device

Requirement: Capable of 1280x1024 resolution

Recommendation: Capable of 1920x1200 resolution (Needed to run every Preset)

System Memory

Requirement: Windows Vista minimum requirement

Recommendation: 2 GB or more

Hard Disk

Requirement: 1 GB of free hard disk space

Operating System

Requirement: Windows Vista with Service Pack 1