Futuremark, the Finland-based maker of several popular benchmarking tools, today announced that 3DMark 11 will be released on November 30, 2010, with pre-orders beginning today.
The free version includes the Performance PC benchmark preset, an audio/visual demo fixed at 720p, the ability to browser, search, and compare results online, and store one result online.
For $20, the Advanced Edition ups the ante with Entry-level and Extreme PC benchmark presets, custom benchmark settings, custom resolutions for the audio/visual demo, benchmark looping to test stability, unlimited online results storage, hide results from public view, advert-free online service, and offline result management.
3DMark is largely a graphics card benchmarking utility with the upcoming release putting a heavy focus on DirectX 11, including tessellation and volumetric lighting created with DX11.
Teaser preview below.
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Big_MARK
November 19, 2010 at 9:18am
I wonder if they will keep or remove the propriatary PhysX portions of the Benchmark.
It should be pulled to level the benchmark scores. Typically adding hardware PhysX adds 1k (or so) to a benchmark score. This skews the results. It makes it seem like Nividia cards out perform AMD/ATI. Removing the PhysX tests would level the benchmark since everybody doesn't have PhysX hardware.
Other than that I look forward to the new benchmark standard!
Mark
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