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3DMark Vantage

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008

Futuremark have finally replaced their Benchmarking tool 3DMark06 with 3DMark Vantage. This has been a long awaited release but hopefully for all those enthusiasts out there its worth the wait. Gamers and enthusiasts alike can now get official results for their latest hardware whether it be buying, selling or just looking at the competition .Vantage has been created for the gaming market, the new benchmarking tool isnt just a GPU benchmark that calculates Tera and Giga Flop calculations.

Vantage has now included four subtests for the user. These include Jane Nash, New Calico, AI and Physics. All of which should benchmark different parts of the graphics card capabilities.

The default testing environment is 1024 by 768, 1280 by1024 and 1920by1200 for all ranges low, medium and high resolutions. The High and Extreme setting uses AA x8 and 16x for extreme. The ending score will be tagged with the letter E, P, H or X followed by a four digit number. There are four versions available from free to at least $500 => £250?