The Driver Approval process has been established to help the users of 3DMark products to produce accurate, repeatable and comparable results with different hardware configurations. An approved driver version has been tested by Futuremark to test its compatibility with the 3DMark version used and verify that the test workloads are being run as specified and unaltered. Performance evaluations and comparisons based on 3DMark results can only be done with data produced with approved driver versions.
This page lists the latest approved drivers for all supported benchmarks.
Radeon HD 6000 and Radeon HD 5000 series:
Catalyst 11.12 (8.920.0.0)
All GPUs:
ForceWare 285.62
3DMark Vantage Driver Approval Policy
These driver versions have been tested using the listed chipset families and operating systems and have been approved for use with 3DMark Vantage.
Windows 7 32/64bit
Radeon HD 6000, Radeon HD 5000 and Radeon HD 4000 series:
Catalyst 11.12 Drivers
Radeon HD 3000 series:
Catalyst 9.10 Drivers
Windows Vista 32/64bit
Radeon HD 6000, Radeon HD 5000 and Radeon HD 4000 series:
Catalyst 11.12 Drivers
Radeon HD 3000 series:
Catalyst 9.10 Drivers
Radeon HD 2000 series
Catalyst 9.3 Drivers
Windows 7 and Windows Vista, 32/64bit
All GPUs
ForceWare 285.62
Approval Condition(s)
Based on the original specification and design of the CPU tests, GPU acceleration of either of the CPU tests is not permitted. Any benchmark result produced using this driver version can be considered approved and accurate only when the GPU did not have an effect in the CPU test results. When using these drivers PhysX hardware acceleration must be manually disabled prior to running the benchmark.
Applies to the following approved driver versions:
ForceWare 180.48
ForceWare 181.20
ForceWare 182.08
ForceWare 182.50
ForceWare 186.18
ForceWare 190.62
ForceWare 191.07
ForceWare 195.62
ForceWare 196.21
ForceWare 197.13
ForceWare 197.45
ForceWare 197.55
ForceWare 257.21
ForceWare 258.96
ForceWare 260.99
ForceWare 266.58
ForceWare 270.61
ForceWare 275.33
ForceWare 280.26
ForceWare 285.62
Windows Vista
Intel GMA X3100 and above
7.15.10.1554 Drivers
Intel HD Graphics
8.15.10.2559 Drivers
Windows 7
Intel HD Graphics
8.15.10.2559 Drivers
These driver versions have been tested using the listed chipset families and operating systems and have been approved for use with 3DMark06.
Windows 7
Radeon HD6x00, Radeon HD5x00 and Radeon HD4x00:
Catalyst 11.12 Drivers
Radeon HD3x00:
Catalyst 9.10 Drivers
Windows Vista
Radeon HD6x00, Radeon HD5x00 and Radeon HD4x00:
Catalyst 11.5 Drivers
Radeon HD3x00:
Catalyst 9.10 Drivers
Radeon HD2x00, Radeon X1x00, Radeon X8x0 and Radeon 9×00 Series:
Catalyst 9.3 Drivers
Windows XP
Radeon HD5x00, Radeon HD4x00:
Catalyst 10.7 Drivers
Radeon HD3x00:
Catalyst 9.10 Drivers
Radeon HD2x00, Radeon X1x00, Radeon X8x0 and Radeon 9×00 Series:
Catalyst 9.3 Drivers
Windows 7 and Windows Vista
All GPUs
ForceWare 285.62
Windows XP
All GPUs
ForceWare 285.62
Windows 7 and Windows Vista
Intel HD Graphics:
8.15.10.2559 Drivers