I hate to tell you this, but your forum signature is outdated. Yes, lurking beneath your PC specs, Carl Sagan quote and 'Kirby dance' ASCII art, that 3DMark 11 score is now old, worthless, useless, and irritating information. Futuremark yesterday launched the new version of its graphics benchmark, see, and everyone previously enthralled by your 3DMark score no longer cares.
Want to know how capable your DirectX 11 video card is? Futuremark is releasing a new version of their 3DMark benchmarking tool to help you do exactly that.
Fire Strike is this year's real-time rendering test, optimized for DirectX 11 and Windows 8. Fire Strike will be one of three benchmarking tools released in the upcoming 3DMark, which should be released before the end of the year. The other two tests are Cloud Gate for notebook PCs, and Ice Storm for Android and iOS devices.
We're on the precipice of a new generation of graphics in games. PC gamers have already equipped their rigs with powerful new DirectX 11 cards--but so far, very few games actually take advantage of that power. Futuremark, developers of 3DMark, has announced a new DirectX 11 benchmark will be available later this year. An accompanying video shows off what we can expect when we start testing our rigs.
Watch: Tessellation, real-time light scattering, and swirling fire embers »
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