First released in 1998, 3DMark has been downloaded more than 35 million times making it the number one 3D performance benchmark for gamers and hardware enthusiasts everywhere.

For 10 years, each new version has featured cutting edge real time 3D graphics and effects, straining even the latest hardware, while giving gamers a hint of what to expect in games in the years to come.

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A Brief History of 3DMark
3DMark Vantage
The most recent version of 3DMark introduced DirectX 10 and Windows Vista bringing with it a new generation of technology. With GPU-accelerated physics, procedural volumetric effects and a highly optimized native DirectX10 engine, 3DMark Vantage is the state of the art in real-time 3D. More Download Buy
3DMark06
Pioneered the large-scale application of DirectX 9 Shader Model 3, demonstrating true HDR rendering in game-like settings, advanced light post-processing effects, a million triangles on screen, and acclaimed cascaded smooth shadow map technology. More Download Buy
3DMark05
The first benchmark to fully support, and require, Shader Model 2 and which also used Shader Model 3 if available on the hardware. More Download Buy
3DMark03
The first DirectX9 benchmark. Cutting edge real time effects included procedural textures, real hair simulation and anisotropic lighting models as well as Havok™ physics and FMOD® sounds. More
3DMark2001 SE
Introduced DirectX 8 with vertex shaders, pixel shaders and cube maps and showcased unprecedented dynamic water and foliage rendering. More
3DMark2000
3DMark2000 used DirectX 7 pushing up to 50,000 triangles in view with 8 dynamic lights and environment bump mapping.
3DMark99
3DMark 99, designed for DirectX 6 and featuring 20,000 triangles per scene, was at the cutting edge of game graphics for the time.
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