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3D Mark Benchmark for Android Announced for 2012

Futuremark, the company behind the world’s most popular benchmark 3D Mark has just confirmed it will release its application for Android devices sometime next year.   Furthermore, the developer announced that it had already started development of 3DMark for Android, which is mainly aimed at Android tablets...

29 November 2011
07:47 GMT

[UPDATE]Sandy Bridge Overclocking Competition Hosted by Futuremark

Since the Intel Sandy Bridge series of CPUs is one with more than one overclocking-optimized member, it stands to reason that overclockers would let loose with them, and it looks like Futuremark decided to host a competition. Those that are unfamiliar with the name Futuremark likely don't spend much time testi...

16 April 2011
06:09 GMT

Futuremark Sets Launch Date for PCMark 7

Futuremark confirmed yesterday the already announced PCMark 7 will soon be available to the general public. The release date has been pinned to May 3, 2011 and the application is set to be launched in three editions: Basic (free), Advanced and Professional.PCMark 7 is designed to continue on the same line as its more...

15 April 2011
08:11 GMT

PCMark 7 Benchmark Announced by Futuremark

PCs nowadays can do a lot of things, and it is benchmarks that users employ in their effort to learn just how well their own configurations run, like PCMark 7, which Futuremark just announced.No doubt consumers have seen and heard of many of the past year's most promising developments, including but not limited...

21 March 2011
12:07 GMT

3DMark 2011 to Be Bundled with NVIDIA GTX 580 Cards from MSI

Just about everyone who's interesting in things pertaining to the hardware world is accustomed to Futuremark's already famous 3D benchmarking application, 3D Mark, used for testing any new graphics card that arrives on the market.Furthermore, some of you may even know that the next version of this applicati...

12 November 2010
09:48 GMT

3DMark 2011 Preview Trailer Out, Watch it Here

Just about everyone's who's interested in testing the level of performance provided by a certain graphics processing unit (professionals and enthusiasts alike) is quite familiar with the 3DMark benchmark suite developed by Futuremark, not to mention that they're eagerly waiting for the future version o...

21 October 2010
04:06 GMT

Futuremark Stages Lords of Overlcoking Competition

Even though, at the beginning of consumer computing, overclocking was against the wishes of CPU makers, AMD and Intel were eventually forced to give in to public pressure and began to release parts specifically designed to allow such enthusiasts to experiment with voltages and clock settings. Before long, an entire ...

21 June 2010
10:25 GMT

Patriot Bundles Shattered Horizon FPS with Xporter Flash Drives

Up to 32 players fighting it out in zero gravity in near-Earth space, 40 years from now. This is, basically, what the multiplayer first-person shooter (FPS) known as Shattered Horizon is all about. Of course, in the gamers' society, such a title usually causes addiction. Knowing this, and the marketing potential...

29 April 2010
04:50 GMT

DirectX 11 Gets Its Very Own Futuremark Benchmark

Futuremark's 3DMark benchmarks, even since their early days, have been important tools in the measuring of graphics-card performance capabilities, to the point where the score is the defining factor for many end-users when deciding on a purchase. However, the downside to these software tools is that, so far, Fut...

17 March 2010
04:32 GMT

China Mobile and Futuremark Ink Benchmark Deal

Futuremark Corporation announced today the signing of an agreement with China Mobile, aimed at the development of a new benchmarking piece of software. As you probably know by now, Futuremark is the global leading developer of performance-analysis software, as well as of services for smartphones, handheld devices and...

3 November 2009
14:41 GMT

EVGA's X58 SLI Mobo Claims Top Spot in Futuremark Hall of Fame

It appears that Futuremark's Hall of Fame web page has recently suffered some minor modifications, as several enthusiastic PC users around the world have embraced the latest hardware technologies available on the market and benchmarked their high-end platforms using the famous 3DMark Vantage benchmark applicatio...

19 December 2008
11:06 GMT

ASUS Motherboards Win Futuremark OverclocKing 2008 Competition

Over 16,600 participants worldwide battled for the first place on the Futuremark OverclocKing 2008 competition, proving the gathering to be the largest competition of overclockers ever held. After 14 days of intense competition, two top overclockers emerged, both of them equipped with an ASUS Striker II Extreme mothe...

20 November 2008
04:46 GMT

GPU PhysX Removed from Futuremark's Hall of Fame

Futuremark came with a response to the accusations that Nvidia PhysX overwrites Vantage files. They decided that all the results using PhysX on a GPU should be removed from their Hall of Fame. The explanation is that they didn't mean the 3DMark Vantage to work with GPUs supporting PhysX. So, they proceeded to up...

21 July 2008
04:42 GMT

Futuremark to Develop Video Games

You probably know these guys if you have ever played a computer game in the past ten years. They are responsible for 3DMark, the program that was able to tell you how good the latest video card you bought really is. And, since they now have the experience regarding both how next-gen are the gamers' video cards, ...

30 January 2008
02:25 GMT

Most Comprehensive Benchmark from Futuremark

Futuremark has just released a version of SPMark for the general audience. This is one of the most evolved releases coming from this company when it comes to testing mobile phone software capabilities.The last XXMarkXX series of benchmarks released until now by Futuremark has been welcomed and appreciated for its pe...

10 May 2007
04:45 GMT


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