Benchmarks – Part 1
3DMark – Firestrike (DX11)
Fire Strike is a showcase DirectX 11 benchmark designed for today’s high-performance gaming PCs. It is our most ambitious and technical benchmark ever, featuring real-time graphics rendered with detail and complexity far beyond what is found in other benchmarks and games today.
3DMark – Time Spy (DX12)
3DMark Time Spy is a new DirectX 12 benchmark test for Windows 10 gaming PCs. Time Spy is one of the first DirectX 12 apps to be built “the right way” from the ground up to fully realize the performance gains that the new API offers. With its pure DirectX 12 engine, which supports new API features like asynchronous compute, explicit multi-adapter, and multi-threading, Time Spy is the ideal test for benchmarking the latest graphics cards.
3DMark – Port Royal
3DMark Port Royal is the world’s first dedicated real-time ray tracing benchmark for gamers. You can use Port Royal to test and compare the real-time ray tracing performance of any graphics card that supports Microsoft DirectX Raytracing. As well as benchmarking performance, 3DMark Port Royal provides a realistic and practical example of what to expect from ray tracing in upcoming games.
Speed Way
3DMark Speed Way is a graphics card benchmark for testing DirectX 12 Ultimate performance. To run this test, you must have a graphics card that supports DirectX 12 Ultimate and has 6GB or more of video memory.
Steel Nomad (High-end Gaming Benchmark)
3DMark Steel Nomad is a cross-platform, non-raytraced benchmark for high-end gaming PCs. It uses the DirectX 12 API by default on Windows. In Explorer mode, you can freely explore the scene and change rendering settings.
Your device must have at least 6GB of video memory to run this test. Systems with Integrated GPUs need 16 GB total system RAM.
DirectX Raytracing Feature Test
The DirectX Raytracing feature test measures pure ray-tracing performance. Use this test to compare the performance of dedicated ray-tracing hardware in the latest graphics cards.
In this feature test, there is a minimal amount of traditional rendering. The result of the test depends entirely on the ray-tracing performance of the graphics card.
Nvidia DLSS Feature Test
DLSS 2 supports three modes: Quality, Performance and Ultra Performance. The choice of modes depends on the resolution. Choose the DLSS output resolution first, then select a mode. Please note that 8K resolution may be too demanding for some hardware.
Deep Learning Super Sampling (DLSS) is an NVIDIA RTX technology that uses the power of deep learning and AI to improve game performance while maintaining visual quality.
This feature test shows you how DLSS affects performance and image quality.
