3DMark06 is a PC benchmark suite designed to test the DirectX9 performance of your graphics card.
A 3DMark score is an overall measure of your system’s 3D gaming capabilities, based on comprehensive real-time 3D graphics and processor tests. By comparing your score with those submitted by millions of other gamers you can see how your gaming rig performs, making it easier to choose the most effective upgrades or finding other ways to optimize your system.
3DMark06 has been downloaded more than any other 3D benchmark and the ORB database now contains over 8.5 million 3DMark06 benchmark scores from around the world.
3DMark is an essential tool for every PC gamer, hardware enthusiast or component manufacturer in the industry.
Features
DirectX 9 3D game performance benchmark
Includes separate graphics card and CPU benchmarks
Produces workloads that simulate next generation 3D gaming requirements
Advanced 3D game engine supports HDR Rendering with SM3.0 Shaders, in addition to SM2.0 Shaders
Includes two HDR/SM3.0 game tests and two SM2.0 game tests
CPU performance testing via AI and physics workloads for both single core systems and multi-threaded, multi-core and multiple processor environments
3D graphics feature tests include Fill Rate, Pixel Shader, Vertex Shader, SM3.0 tests, and Batch Size tests
Full control over the benchmark display configuration, including resolution, shader profiles, anti-aliasing and texture filtering
Feature tests measuring shader performance, and essential graphics performance features
Playable mini-game based on CPU test
Professional tools, including image quality analysis and graph creation of runtime statistics
