3DMARK Port Royal DirectX Raytracing Benchmark to release in January 2019

[WYP]

The benchmark will be showcased this December.



Read more about 3DMARK Port Royal, the DirectX Raytracing Benchmark.

 

[Bagpuss]

ray tracing effects running in real-time at reasonable frame rates at 2560 × 1440 resolution.

This made me laugh...I think that's the first time I've ever seen the term 'reasonable framerates' used to describe a benchmark.


Talk about lowering expectations.

 

[WYP]

This made me laugh...I think that's the first time I've ever seen the term 'reasonable framerates' used to describe a benchmark.


Talk about lowering expectations.

I remember watching some old benchmarks run on my first system, super low framerates etc.

I think the aim is to show what is possible on today's kit, rather than just make something stupidly demanding with the expectation that next-gen hardware will sort it out. Some customers would expect the benchmark to rum somewhat smoothly when using a recently released high-end GPU. Beyond that, there are those that will use this benchmark at events as a tech demo.

The long and short here is that designing it this way appeases their potential customers. They will no doubt release a 4K version of this at a later date when better GPUs are released.