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3DMark 05 Released

Sep 29, 2004 8:24am CST tags: Hardware (PC only)
The folks at Futuremark have released their latest and greatest benchmark suite for everyone to play with 3DMark 05. You can go straight to download fun over at FileShack or you can read a bit more about it at TechReport

The app uses "pure" DirectX 9, unlike the previous version, and the floating-point-enabled Shader Model 2.0 is now a baseline. 3DMark05 dynamically generates shader code in Microsoft's High Level Shader Language and supports a broad range of shader compile targets, so it can take best advantage of the Radeon X700/X800 series via Shader Model 2.0b and the GeForce 6 series via Shader Model 3.0.

        

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