Congratulations on installing 3DMark03, the latest worldwide standard in advanced 3D gaming performance benchmarking from Futuremark Corporation. This unique program provides an accurate and consistent assessment of the ability of your PC to cope with the latest and future generations of 3D games. The detailed diagnostic tools allow the user to make reliable hardware judgments and help to inform decisions over upgrades.
The incredible scenes in the various tests are part of the routines that 3DMark performs to measure the 3D gaming performance, as well as provide you with details about more specific abilities of your PC. By using 3DMark03 and the Online ResultsBrowser, you can get:- A 3DMark score - a globally recognised and comparable measurement of the 3D gaming ability of your PC.
- Detail results of the game and feature tests.
- A comparison of your machine against thousands of others, from every corner of the globe!
- An educated estimate as to how much better your system will perform with certain upgrades.
3DMark03 is an analytical tool for measuring the 3D gaming performance of PCs, for today and tomorrow. Its ease of use, coupled with exciting graphics and effects, make it an essential program for any 3D gamer to own! Beginners and experts alike can use 3DMark03 - the default benchmark is activated with a single click, but it also contains various testing options and tools.
Professional testers and reviewers often need to examine specific functions of the PC, such as frame image quality or the ability to automatically run a batch of tests with different settings. The Pro version of 3DMark03 contains the extra tools needed by such users; a simple online purchase is all that is required.
3DMark03 highlights:
- Four all new game tests, presenting graphics quality of next generation games.
- The fourth game test presents features of Microsoft DirectX 9 in a beautiful nature scene.
- The 3DMark03 demo, which is based on the game tests, but contains additional eye candy and original soundtracks.
- 3D sound test. A totally new test in the 3DMark series! 3D sound is an exciting part of modern 3D gaming; 3DMark03 can now assess the performance impact that 3D sound will have. The test runs a fixed scene with an increasing number of sound sources.
- CPU test. An older but popular test has returned! The CPU plays a very important role in any 3D game so it is only natural for 3DMark03 to assess the impact that it has.
- Professional tools for image quality inspection, texture filtering quality testing, automated batch runs and a lot more.
Note: The results and final score of 3DMark03 are not comparable with any previous version of 3DMark.
3DMark03 is a benchmark tool used to examine PC systems for their ability to run tests that emulate the very latest and near-future 3D games. Therefore, older systems may not have the functions or power needed.
Minimum system requirements are as follows:- Intel® or AMD® compatible processor that achieves a PCMark2002 CPU score over 2500 marks (corresponds to 1 GHz clock speed on some CPU architectures).
- 256 MB of system memory.
- 1 GB of hard disk space.
- DirectX 9 compatible graphics adapter that has 32 MB of memory and is fully DirectX 7 compliant.
- Windows 98, ME, 2000 or XP operating system.
- DirectX 9.0a runtime installed (download).
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 installed, for some 3DMark functionality (download).
- Microsoft DirectX System Development Kit is required to run the image quality test using the reference rasterizer.
Futuremark recommends that for the best possible benchmarking, the system requirements should be:
- Intel® or AMD® compatible processor that achieves a PCMark2002 CPU score over 5000 marks (corresponds to over 2 GHz clock speed on some CPU architectures).
- 512 MB of system memory.
- DirectX 9 compliant graphics adapter that has 128MB of memory.
It is possible that 3DMark03 will run on PCs that do not meet the above requirements but the benchmark performance may be seriously affected. For example, insufficient system or video memory will result in texture swapping - this will cause fluctuations during the tests, reducing the reliability of the generated scores.
The primary features in 3DMark03 are:
- Support for DirectX 9.
- 4 Game tests, covering a varied level of DirectX functions.
- Feature tests analysing shader performance, and other functions.
- A new 3D Sound test.
- An exciting and awe-inspiring 3DMark demo, pushing your system to its limits.
- System Info utility, which provides an in-depth analysis of the status and features of the components in your PC.
- Full control over the benchmark display configuration, including resolution, colour palette, anti-aliasing and texture filtering.
- Professional tools, including image quality analysis and batch run functionality.
- Result import to MS Excel tool for easier result management and report creation.
- Access to the Pro-Online Result Browser, a must have for all professional system testers and enthusiast overclockers.
- Microsoft® DirectX® 9 3D application programming interface (www.microsoft.com/directx/).
- Havok Total real-time physics library from Havok (www.havok.com) - these routines are used to accurately model the movements of objects due to forces, etc.
- FMOD sound library from Firelight Technologies (www.fmod.org) - this is used for the sound effects in the sound tests and the music playback in the demo.
- Graphics adapter analysis software from Powerstrip of Entech Taiwan (www.entechtaiwan.com) - this is used to correctly determine the speeds of the graphics processing and video memory chips, plus supply additional hardware information.
PCMark2002
PCMark2002 is the first unified personal computer benchmark from Futuremark
and is suited for testing all kinds of PCs, from laptops to high-end workstations.
PCMark2002 is designed to assess the performance of a PC under normal home
and office PC usage. Futuremark has other benchmark products for more specific
PC usage areas. PCMark2002 covers many of those as well as additional areas
outside the scope of the other benchmarks.
BAPCo/Futuremark SYSmark2002
BAPCo/Futuremark's SYSmark2002 is the industry standard application-based
benchmark, testing your system's ability to run today's leading edge software
applications for Internet Content Creation and Office Productivity. SYSmark2002's
standardized testing and reporting guidelines ensure reliable and repeatable
results.
BAPCo/Futuremark Mobilemark2002
BAPCo/Futuremark's Mobilemark2002 is an application-based benchmark like SYSmark,
but designed for notebook computer performance measurement. The primary purpose
of this benchmark is to measure how long a mobile computer can run on a single
battery charge. The user has the choice of running MobileMark under a Productivity
workload or a Reader workload, which simulate two different usage models.
The above products are available for purchase at www.futuremark.com/products.
Online ResultBrowser
The Online ResultBrowser (ORB) lets you review your results in detail on-line
and compares your scores with results from PC users all over the world. The
ORB also gives you valuable insight on ways you can improve your computer's
performance.
Performance Analyzer
Futuremark offers performance analyzer services customizable for your website.
A light ActiveX component sniffs the PC hardware and operating system components
of a visitor to your website, through just a single click on a link. Their
system can then be given a performance estimate based on the result database
of Futuremark. This estimate is then compared to the performance of your products,
which gives the consumer a reliable comparison of his system and the products
of your company.
SupportMark
The SupportMark service helps technical PC service support operations to become
more efficient. The support department can achieve as much as 70% reduction
in technical customer support costs! SupportMark sends a small ActiveX program
component to the customer's PC, which installs and activates itself automatically.
The program scans the customer's PC and either sends the scanned information
to the customer support email address or prints out a ticket number with which
the customer support rep can retrieve the customer's system information.
