Cheers,

Oliver
President
Futuremark

Are you planning on using GPUs for advanced physics calculations offloading in your products? I would like to see a technology which can evaluate the raw power (despite graphics) of new and future MULTI-GPU and hybrid CPU/GPU chips, and I think your products can be a real driving force for that, by showcasing to the developers the capabilities of CUDA (NVIDIA) and ATI’s solution?

Thanks in advance.

Would the 3DMark developing team be releasing a new bench-marking software sometime in the upcoming 2 years? If so, would the upcoming futuremark software be oriented towards high end DX10 GPUs? Since 3Dmark Vantage itself is very GPU-demanding as the current test results have shown, would you consider optimizing it to make the new 3Dmark more accessible for mid/low-end DX10 GPU processors?

What is the impact of this new 3Dmark Advantage to the major graphic card resolution brands (ATI and Nvidia)? (Would you consider futuremark to be significant in determining how and what the future GPU processor markets will be like? Will this software lead to the production of new high-end graphic cards that will be “adapted” to this software or will those companies focus more on the games themselves?)

it’a a very goo opportunity to open this contest !
3d mark don’t need to prove their fiability to test 3d graphics cards

why 3d marks vantage is so known and use as a reference for graphics cards test ?

“Alternative” operating systems that does not support Direct3D such as Linux and Mac OS X has received increased popularity among computer users worldwide in the last couple of years. Since OpenGL is the only viable cross-platform graphics API, have you considered making a cross-platform benchmark program based on OpenGL? Such a benchmarking application could be used to compare performance among different operating systems which could be quite interesting as well as promoting cross-plattform game development.

Sincerely,
Henrik

1- optimization : It’s known to every gamer that some games are optimized to run on specific hardware as a case of support from the hardware vendor to the developer, these optimization can add a lot of performance to the final result, so I’m wondering if Vantage ( or any other earlier version of 3D Mark ) uses optimization in order to have the full performance measurment of that hardware, ofcourse I’m not talking about one specific hardware vendor or the benchmark wont be fair, I’m talking about all hardware vendors…

2- is there’s any plan to develope versions of these benchmarks for mobile phones ? Java, Symbian UIQ, Symbian S40, Symbian S60 and the rest of the most known mobile platform/OS’s ?

3- 3D Mark is known to be Windows only benchmark, is there any plans to support other OS’s such as Linux & Mac ?

4- 3D Mark is known to be the best benchmarking tool for gaming hardware and also some other hardware, it supports the newset technologies both in Software and Hardware like new Direct X Versions and new advance in hardware like Multi-Core, Physics Acceleration, etc..
but there’s some points we have found that 3D Mark lacks, for example, OpenGL benchmark, Sound Card features test, special test for mouse and keyboard ( this will be great for hard-core FPS fans ). personally I think 3D Mark with and Advance version should have more than just more advanced options, such as special advance hardware test ( VRAM bandwidth & latency, PCI Express/AGP/PCI bus bandwidth & latency, ofcourse not to mention normal benchmarks like system ram bandwidth and latency )

5- What do you think about collaborating with Games developers to add unified Games benchmarking add-on for 3D Mark ?
I mean if we installed for example the ‘Title X’ game, the game will ask the user for installing 3D Mark add-on that will add specific benchmarking commands for that game, so that 3D Mark will be able to batch benchs the game with a unified way, this will make 3D Mark a central gaming benchmark software, not just for synthetic or semi-synthetic benchmark, but also a real-time bench mark, also it’s result – as thse will be based on unified settings – will be easy to compare on the online database… adding real-world benchs can adds more details on the benchmarks result that will make a lot of competitive and broaden the use of 3D Mark even as a standard benchmarking tool for most games.

Do you think there´s a chance for a release of a Dx9 only version of 3DMark Vantage for Windows XP bases systems?

Thanx.
Arturo from South America.

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Thank You
Rove Live Australia

I would like to ask you how the new benchmarks are more straining on future cards. I saw a whole range of fluid mechanics and physics, but I have yet to see its potential to give future cards a whipping.

How would it scale up on future architectures?

Thank You
Assasin

I’ve got a question:

what’s the future plan after 3DMark Vantage release?