Welcome to 3DMark®03

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:
Introduction to 3DMark®03

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:

Note: The results and final score of 3DMark03 are not comparable with any previous version of 3DMark.


System Requirements

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:

Futuremark recommends that for the best possible benchmarking, the system requirements should be:

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.


3DMark03 Features

The primary features in 3DMark03 are:

Features only available in the Pro version of 3DMark03 are:

3DMark03 was built using the following third party software components:


Other Futuremark Benchmarks

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.


Futuremark's On-Line Services

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.