I found this video about FluidMark:
It’s true, FluidMark is really boring. I’ll try to do better for the next benchmarks 😉
PhysX FluidMark Video
It’s true, FluidMark is really boring. I’ll try to do better for the next benchmarks 😉
Tag Archives: Utilitaires
It’s true, FluidMark is really boring. I’ll try to do better for the next benchmarks 😉
3DMark Vantage – Liens Utiles
3DMark Vantage le nouveau benchmark CPU/GPU de Futurmark est disponible depuis quelques heures sur les serveurs des sites 3D majeurs comme Guru3D. 3DMark Vantage est ciblé pour Windows Vista et DirectX 10 et utilise un tout nouveau moteur 3D pour exploiter au mieux la dernière API graphique de Microsoft.
Ce nouveau benchmark est disponible en 4 versions: une gratuite (trial) et 3 payantes:
– Basic: $6.95
– Advanced: $19.95
– Professional: $495
La version totalement gratuite est téléchargeable MAIS elle est extrêmement limitée puisqu’elle n’autorise qu’un seul lancement des tests, avec les réglages standards. Je pense que l’on devrait retrouver d’ici peu la version Basic (ou Advanced) en bundle avec certaines cartes graphiques…
Voici une petite compilation de liens pour vous aider à mieux exploiter 3DMark Vantage:
– 3DMark Vantage Whitepaper
– 3DMark Vantage Testing Guidelines
Download:
– 3DMark Vantage @ Guru3D
– 3DMark Vantage @ MajorGeeks
– 3DMark Vantage @ Revioo
Graphics Drivers
– NVIDIA Forceware 175.12 Vista 32
– NVIDIA Forceware 175.12 Vista 64
– ATI Catalyst 3DMark Vantage Hotfix Released for Radeon 2k/3k
Misc:
– 3DMark Vantage, new torture for your gaming setup @ expreview.com
– Futuremark 3DMark Vantage Review @ Overclockers Club
– Futuremark 3DMark Vantage – The Gamers New Benchmark @ Legit Reviews
– 3DMark Vantage Overview and Performance @ FiringSquad
– Futuremark 3DMark Vantage @ AnandTech
– 3DMark Vantage quick user guide @ Guru3D
– 3DMark Vantage formal version screenshots @ hardspell
– 3DMark Vantage Presentation @ accelenation
– 3DMark Vantage est enfin là @ pcinpact
GPU Test
PhysX Test
FurMark Fume les Cartes Graphiques
Je suis tombé sur ce fil de discussion chez [H]ard|Forum où l’on peut lire ceci:
“That fur demo is known to get cards the hottest, it is also known for smoking cards as well (it was the last thing run for a number of people on the extremesystems forums).”
En gros ça dit que le FurMark est connnu pour faire le plus chauffer les cartes mais qu’il aussi connu pour les faire fumer et c’est souvent la dernière chose que certains utilisateurs aient vu! Je savais que le FurMark était bon pour faire chauffer les cartes mais je ne savais pas qu’il était aussi capable de les détruire. Je sens que cet été va être chaud pour certaines cartes graphiques…
Happy New Year 2k8 + Dev News
Just some little news about the current dev I’m working on. In the next few days I will release the new version of GPU Caps Viewer (currently in beta-test stage). This new version has a cleaner interface, an improved gpu detection, a new OpenGL demo (HDR) and a new logo… And in the same time I’m updating the fur benchmark with many new cool features such as a separate rendering thread and mostly a checkbox called Contest Mode. More on this option very soon. After the release of both softwares, I hope to get back on Demoniak3D development and demos.
So stay tuned!
And from now, a few days of complete rest…
Happy New Year 2008!
3DMark Next (3DMark08) arrive bientôt
Les images du nouveaux 3DMark commencent à fleurir un peu partout sur les forums comme celui-ci: tgfc.qwd1.com.
on découvre l’auteur de cette image qui a utilisé les techniques classiques offline (mais avancées!) pour le rendu de cette image. Bon c’est vrai, l’artiste 3D a fait cette image en 2006 mais si 3DMark06 fait le rendu en temps réel de cette scène, alors chapeau bas!
FudZilla vient juste de publier cette news qui dit que certaines des images du nouveau 3DMak08 sont des fausses (des fakes): Fake 3DMark08 screen shots posted. Certaines sont vraies et d’autres sont des fausses. Mais lesquelles ?
Le site incriminé est: pcpop.com. Une façon comme une autre de faire du trafic sur un site!
Je pense qu’il faudra encore attendre un peu avant d’avoir une bonne idée du vrai rendu de 3DMark08.
Affaire à suivre!
Compétition d’overclocking GPU
Le site www.hardware.info propose une compétition d’overclocking de GPU et utilise le Fur Rendering Benchmark comme utilitaire principal (bon c’est ma version des faits vu que tout est écrit en néerlandais mais je ne dois pas me tromper de beaucoup – si quelqu’un comprend cette langue, merci d’avance pour un petit feedback de ce qui s’y raconte). Décidément, le fur benchmark fait parler de lui ces derniers temps. Mais le truc marrant c’est que tout le monde s’obstine à utiliser la version 1.0.0 alors que la version 1.1.0 existe…
Powercolor HD3870 vs HD2900XT vs HD3850 Review
Petit test sympathique des dernieres Radeon. Pourquoi sympathique? Tout simplement parcequ’il utilise le fur benchmark en plus des éternels 3dmark ou jeux vidéos (genre crysis, quake wars). C’est le second test que je trouve qui utilise le fur benchmark et ils ont raison. Les gros benchmarks comme 3DMark/Crysis font travailler le GPU mais aussi le CPU et îl n’est parfois pas très évident de voir l’influence d’une carte graphique avec ce genre de test. En fait ces tests doivent être réservés pour bencher une configuration complète (CPU/RAM/GPU) pour gamers. Mais si l’on veut se concentrer uniquement sur la carte graphique, il faut que la charge CPU soit le plus faible possible (pas de trop quand même sinon le GPU va commencer à attendre les données). En ce sens, le fur benchmark convient très bien car sa charge CPU est relativement faible et la charge GPU très élevée. Du coup, pratiquement n’importe quel système CPU/RAM (bon peut être pas un PIII mais sait-on jamais) est bon pour bencher une carte 3d avec le fur benchmark.
Le test complet se trouve ici: www.virtualegion.com/index.php?topic=1637.0
Fur Rendering Benchmark Used in a Review
Funny, my furry benchmark has been used in a graphics card review along with 3DMark or Lost Planet. Pretty cool 😉
Catalyst 7.9, Radeon 2900 and Surface Deformer
From oZone3D.Net Forums, the Catalyst 7.9 seems to unleash ATI Radeon 2900 GPU. The Surface Deformer benchmark is a benchmark that requires a lot of vertex processing horse power. With Catalyst prior to 7.9, the score of an ATI 2900 was around 8000 o3Marks (that was already high). Now with Catalyst 7.9, the 2900 gets a score of 15000 o3Marks. Incredible!!! Why such a big big jump in OpenGL performance ?
My first thought is that ATI has managed to use correctly the unified arch of the R600 gpu. With unified arch, the workload is distribued over all shaders processors no matter the type of the shader prog (vertex or pixel). So if the vertex shader needs more processing power than the pixel shader, more shaders processors will be used for the vertex shader. My second thought: unified arch has involved new kernel code for catalyst and simply ATI has optimized the R600 codepath. A driver for a modern GPU like the R600 is a very complex piece of code and optimizing such a code is a huge task….
Fur Rendering Benchmark
I officially released the fur rendering benchmark 4 days ago. So let’s analyze a little bit the first feedbacks available on forums over the web.
Homepage: www.ozone3d.net/benchmarks/fur/
1 – Fur rendering benchmark isn’t cpu dependent and this is a very good thing for a graphics card benchmark. No matter the cpu speed, the result for a given card stays equivalent:
– oZone3D.Net forums
– extremeoverclocking.com forums
– extremeoverclocking.com forums
“yes the first propper gpu bench ive come across, i really like this…. it stops all the arguments about memory timings and cpu speeds. its a good equaliser as all our systems can provide that 10% cpu info the gpu needs…”
2 – 8800GTX vs 2900XT
ATI 2900XT seems to beat NVIDIA 8800GTX. In all forums, the 2900XT is ahead:
– oZone3D.Net forums
– overclockers.co.uk forums
– extremeoverclocking.com forums
3 – this benchmark seems to nicely overload the graphics card and then is a cool GPU burner and stress/stability test utility.
– clubic.com forums : “Par contre j ai jamais vu ma carte graphique chauffer autant: environ 100° pendant la test:ouch:”
– oZone3D.Net forums: “This thing just succeeded to shut down twice the PSU, caused by overloading of the graphics board!!”
I done a little test with my 8800GTX:
– gpu core temp at rest: 58°C
– gpu core temp at load: 83°C
Okay, that’s all for that small benchmark. :winkhappy:
Dynamic branching and NVIDIA Forceware Drivers
Several weeks ago, I posted on Beyond3D a thread on my dynamic branching benchmark. I wondered why dynamic branching performances on Geforce 7 were worse than ones on Geforce 6 or 8. I believe I’ve got the answer: Forceware drivers.
Here are some new results where ratio = Branching_ON / Branching_OFF :
7600GS – Fw 84.21 – Branching OFF: 496 o3Marks – Branching ON: 773 o3Marks – Ratio = 1.5
7600GS – Fw 91.31 – Branching OFF: 509 o3Marks – Branching ON: 850 o3Marks – Ratio = 1.6
7600GS – Fw 91.36 – Branching OFF: 508 o3Marks – Branching ON: 850 o3Marks – Ratio = 1.6
7600GS – Fw 91.37 – Branching OFF: 509 o3Marks – Branching ON: 850 o3Marks – Ratio = 1.6
7600GS – Fw 91.45 – Branching OFF: 509 o3Marks – Branching ON: 472 o3Marks – Ratio = 0.9
7600GS – Fw 91.47 – Branching OFF: 509 o3Marks – Branching ON: 472 o3Marks – Ratio = 0.9
7600GS – Fw 93.71 – Branching OFF: 508 o3Marks – Branching ON: 474 o3Marks – Ratio = 0.9
7600GS – Fw 97.92 – Branching OFF: 505 o3Marks – Branching ON: 478 o3Marks – Ratio = 0.9
7600GS – Fw 100.95 – Branching OFF: 508 o3Marks – Branching ON: 480 o3Marks – Ratio = 0.9
my conclusion is: dynamic branching in OpenGL works fine (read the performance are better than without dynamic branching: ratio > 1) for forceware < = 91.37. For the drivers >= 91.45, the ratio drops under 1. Dynamic branching works as expected for gf6 and gf8 but not for gf7 since forceware 91.45. So the bug explanation is a plausible answer (and it’s easily understandable: in this news we learnt that a forceware driver is made of around 20 millions of lines of code – a paradise for a small bug!!!). I’ve also done the test with the simple soft shadows demo provided with the NV SDK 9.5. The results are the same.
I’ve just done the bench with a 7950gx2 and the latest forceware 160.02 and dynamic branching is still buggy…
SLI is nice!
I must confess the SLI is a really cool technology. I assembled a SLI station based on the new nVidia Geforce 7600 GS series. This is a little graphic card compared to the high-end ones like the 7900GTX or the big monster 7950 GX2 (which in passing is really quiet in spite of its two GPUs and ventirads): the price of a 7600GS is about 100 euros, the price of a 7900GTX is about 400 euros and the cost of the 7950 GX2 climbs up to 500 euros! In terms of shader pipelines, the 7600 GS has 5 vertex pipes and 12 pixel pipes, the 7900 GTX has 8 vertex pipes / 24 pixel pipes and the GX2 has 48 pixel pipes and 16 vertex pipes. And so what? A 7600 GS SLI system offers almost the same level of gpu power than a 7800/7900 for a half price. I’ve verified this fact with the latest version of the soft shadows benchmark. With one 7600 GS (single GPU mode) the score is 510 o3Marks. With the two 7600 GS in SLI mode, the score jumps to 1004 o3Marks. The 7950 GX2’s score in single GPU is about 1200 o3Marks. Ok my bench is a small bench, you’re right. What about 3dmrk06? The 3DMark06 score is 4115 for the 7600 GS SLI system. This score is close to the ones got with a non-overclocked gf7800/7900.
Little remark: my 7600 GS are not overclocked.
Conlusion: for 200 euros you can have an excellent graphic system which is also silent thanks to the 7600GS passive cooler!
Soft Shadows are Great!
I’ve just finihed to implement soft-shadows in the new oZone3D Engine. And I must say that soft shadows bring a huge amount of realism and credibility to 3d scenes. See for yourself:
The oZone3D tech demo is available here: Soft Shadows Demo
You can consider this demo as a little benchmark. Just start the oZone3D_SoftShadows_Benchmark.exe and look at the FPS in the title bar. With my current devstation I got the following score:
PC1: AMD64 3500+ / 1024M DDR400 / Radeon X700Pro 128M Catalyst 6.6 / WinXpsp2: 5 FPS :thumbdown:
Soft shadows are very GPU consuming but they are the future of 3D! So to make the most of soft shadows, update your graphics card!