3DMark Vantage - More info and screenshots

[Bungral]

More information on 3DMark Vantage has been revealed along with some new screenshots from an interview had with Futuremark.

Check out the full news article.

 

[PP Mguire]

This is strictly DX10 right?

 

[Bungral]

This is strictly DX10 right?

Read the interview

From what I remember it was a "this in unconfirmed at the moment" type answer.

Edit: There is this: PCGH: Does 3DMark Vantage makes use of DX10.1? If so, is it relevant for the final score?

Dr. Jukka Makinen: This has not yet been announced.

But nothing about DX10.0

 

[PP Mguire]

Yea i asked that after reading the interview. Ive seen alot of things saying it will be only DX10 (which makes sense) but i was just wondering.

 

[Bungral]

Yea i asked that after reading the interview. Ive seen a lot of things saying it will be only DX10 (which makes sense) but i was just wondering.

Fair enough... I only had a quick search but couldn't find anything.

 

[PP Mguire]

Well right before i posted that ^ i read it again and just the smidget about DX10.1 and using its features.

 

[The Computer Council]

Do we know the release date yet?

Itching to get our hands on this for testing our rigs here.

:worship:

 

[daniel-kun]

Is it just me or do the screenshots really look unimpressive and boring?

Even last year's games looked better!

 

[Rastalovich]

I`ll be dismissing this as a gaming benchmark if it produces higher scores for quad that duals, that have something like SuperPI scores the same on each core - and rated the same sse, same caches.

As a general benchmark fair enough, but their emphasis is meant to be games.

 

[FarFarAway]

I think the point of Futuremark is that if gamers actually did use multi-cores then games would utilise them, they are just lazy and don't