There's been a lot of chatter about DirectX 12, the low-level graphics API built into Windows 10, and what effect it will have on PC gaming. Developers will more fully embrace DX12 as time goes on, ...

Get ready to add another 3DMark benchmark test to your arsenal. UL Benchmarks, the developer behind the popular 3DMark suite (as well as PCMark and others), announced it is bringing a new Speed Way ...

Microsoft announced and provided developers with information about DirectX 12 Ultimate back in March 2020. It said that the new API was the result of five years continual investment in DX12, with the ...

I awoke to an email this morning from Futuremark that announced they have a new entry into the 3DMark family of benchmarks, with Time Spy Extreme launching on October 11. What is Time Spy Extreme?

With every new graphics API being launched, new benchmarks are imperative. In order to understand how our hardware really performs, benchmarks must be designed with the API being tested in mind. This ...

Last month, Futuremark, the creators of the popular 3DMark benchmarks, teased a new DX12 benchmark. Unlike most benchmarks which are still DX11 based, the new releases would support the new API as ...

Move over, Fire Strike, there's a new 3DMark benchmark in town. It's dubbed Time Spy and claims to be "one of the first DirectX 12 apps to be built the right way from the ground up to fully realise ...

The big stress for new GPU architectures and the latest and greatest graphics cards, like NVIDIA's fresh GeForce GTX 1080 Ti and AMD's upcoming Radeon RX Vega - are the new APIs in Vulkan and DirectX ...

Futuremark are introducing a new 3DMark real-time raytracing benchmark later this year to test Microsoft's DirectX Raytracing API on your graphics card. And it is going to give your current-gen ...

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Futuremark added the Vulkan API to its Overhead test in 3Dmark, letting users see how their system handles draw calls in DirectX 11, 12, and now Vulkan. Although Vulkan should decimate DirectX 11 in ...