Futuremark Corporation today launched 3DMark Vantage, the latest iteration of its popular 3D graphics benchmark. The company expended about $5 million in development to integrate numerous advanced features, such as introducing ray-tracing rendering effects and native support for up to 32 simultaneous threads.

3DMark Vantage is composed of four full-bore benchmarking tests (2 different CPU tests and 2 different GPU tests) and 6 feature tests. Four presets, a groundbreaking new feature, vastly augment the variety of PCs that can be tested with the product. Presets range from value through performance to high end cinematic rendering resolutions and features. By creating a new set of high end presets, 3DMark Vantage is future proofed for the new multi-core CPU and Graphics Processing Unit products as well as supporting the Physics Processing Unit to expand the range of technology, testing and prevent the benchmark from being bottlenecked for its users.

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