3DMark Vantage, new torture for your gaming setup.
3DMark Vantage has been released at April 28, bringing us a totally new way of gaming benchmark. In a gamer/reviewer’s view, the Vantage release is as important as a hardware company like AMD or Intel launch their new product lines. The software is not just make for bench current GPU, it is make for benching PC gaming hardware in the future. Our rig is not that future, so in our test you can see, even a GeForce 9800GX2 performs not so good in the most extreme setting of Vantage.
Before Vantage’s launch, NVIDIA has already prepared a new driver, 175.12, and AMD released a Hotfix for Catalyst 8.4 after the benchmark tool’s launch. It seems a competition base on 3DMark Vantage have already begin.
But 3DMark Vantage is not polished, some bugs have shown their signs in the software, still waiting for FutureMark to eliminate them. in the official FAQ there is some early answers. If you have troubles with 3DMark Vantage, you should check out the FAQ.
Page 1: Introduction
Page 2: Testing platform
Page 3: 16 cards benchmark with Performance preset
Page 4: 16 cards benchmark with Extreme preset
Page 5: Card comparison
Page 6: 3DMark Vantage is torture for GFX cards
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May 1st, 2008 at 11:39 pm
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May 3rd, 2008 at 9:21 am
I tried in my Dell Latitude D630 with Quadro NVS 135m using Forceware 174.31 WHQL and 175.12, but I can’t get the score. It alwayas error at:
-Both CPU Test error, the first seem ok, but after it done, it display error message. The second is not loading.
- The third feature test that reported boosted by 175.12 but cause BSOD using 174.31, and failed back to desktop using 175.12.
This is the worst 3DMark ever. The best one is when it still Madonion.
May 3rd, 2008 at 9:24 am
Oh I forgot to add, I am using Vista Business Sp1 64 bit Original, with 2 GB x 2 DDR II 667.
May 3rd, 2008 at 10:13 pm
3dmark vantage should have been much much better. 3dmark06 still rules imho!
May 4th, 2008 at 4:18 pm
@hok, i ran 3DV on my PC, and it keep crashing in the first demo
just waiting their first hotfix to eliminate all the bugs..
May 4th, 2008 at 9:59 pm
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