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Futuremark Begins Development of VR Benchmark ‘VRMark’
It’s no secret that VR gaming is taking off in a big way, with Oculus, Vive and many others all pushing their new hardware in one form or another. However, one major issue still holds a lot of gamers back when it comes to VR; hardware requirements. If you’re eager…
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AMD Reveals DirectX 12 Performance Stats in 3DMark Benchmark
Futuremark has released a new update for 3DMark that adds 3DMark API Overhead benchmark. It didn’t take long for AMD to get straight into showing its performance stats for the Radeon R9 290X graphics and the FX-8370 octa-core CPU scaling. Futuremark has added draw calls on different APIs in its Overhead…
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3DMark Update Adds Ultra HD Benchmark
Ultra high-definition gaming is the next big thing and something that is starting to become available to the boarder gaming community. The last generation of GPUs made this a possibility with multi GPU setups. The new line of Nvidia GTX 980 cards are breaking records everywhere and moved us another step…
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3DMark Update Coming With a New Test Scenario For Mid-Range Systems
Futuremark’s 3DMark benchmarking suite is one of the biggest benchmarking suites that is out on the market for the testing and comparative positioning of gaming systems and as the outer reaches of performance grow on a near day-to-day basis, the benchmark tests that we run have to mature as well.…
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Futuremark Releases The Basic and Advanced Versions Of PCMark 8
Futuremark has finally released the basic and advanced version of its latest PCMark 8 benchmarking engine. PCMark 8 is similar to the well-known 3DMark, having a modified UI which is reported to be touchscreen friendly. It also breaks up the benchmark into five tests, which are Home, Creative, Work,…
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3D Mark Adds New Ice Storm Unlimited Mode And Upgrades GPU Monitoring
Futuremark has released a new update that brings a few notable changes to the benchmarking software, including a an improvement in its Benching algorythms and adding a new Ice Storm Unlimited Mode to the benchmarking options. The update consists mostly of an algorithm update and GPU-Z Library integration that will…
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Futuremark Respond To Windows 8 HWBot Blanket-Ban
While HWBot have banned Windows 8 based benchmarks, which includes things like 3DMark and PCMark submissions, Futuremark is stressing that customers and businesses do not need to worry. The exploit was based on issues with the RTC or Real-Time Clock in Windows 8 and Futuremark says everyone else has no…
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Win A £2000 DinoPC T-Rex 7990 Gaming PC With DinoPC, XFX and eTeknix!
In the past few years we have had some truly amazing giveaways at eTeknix such as our £1000 PC Specialist Gaming System giveaway in March 2013 and our Big Get Active Xmas giveaway in December 2012. Today we are raising the bar once again as we unveil to you our…
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Futuremark Unveils PCMark 8 For Windows 8 and 7
PCMark 7 has been the industry standard benchmark for testing whole systems for a while now. For reviewers like us it is very much the first port of call when measuring the overall performance of Windows based systems. Unlike 3DMark, which is totally gaming orientated, PCMark 7 offered an array…
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MSI bundle new 3DMark Advanced Edition with selected motherboards and graphic cards
Futuremark have released their new 3DMark benchmark where MSI is the exclusive sponsor of the Fire Strike Demo. To sweeten the deal with selected models of motherboards and graphic cards, they are bundling 3DMark Advanced Edition worth $24.99. Its not clear which motherboards and graphic card model/series will be having…
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Nvidia GeForce “Titan” (and/or GTX 780) 3DMark 11 benchmark leaked
Nvidia’s next gen “Titan” Geforce card is expected to be released by the end of February and there will be cards the models GTX 780, 770 and the versions of the card with “Ti” versions set for release. Recently in a Chinese website PC Online a 3DMark 11 screenshot of Nvidia’s next-generation…
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Futuremark to release the new version of 3DMark Benchmark on 4th Feb
Futuremark is all set to release the new version of 3DMark on February 4th, 2013 18:00 hours UTC. There will also be a release for Android, iOS and Windows RT powered mobile hardware however there is no confirmed launch dates for it, but Futuremark assures that the release will be…
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