Since Windows 8 wants to french kiss both tablets and traditional computers, the new 3DMark (landing next year) will support both x86 and ARM rigs. That means everything from your next skinny (Windows 8) tablet to the 16-core trillion dollar, water-cooled gaming machine of your dreams will be in the same arena. No word yet on what kind of eye candy 3DMark Win8 will push when it arrives, but if history is any guide, it’ll probably be demos of steampunk elephants falling out of the sky into a nuclear reactor and robot princesses slap-fighting in a snowstorm. In real time. [Futuremark via MaxPC]
Note: Instead of a screenshot, Futuremark released the above drawing of some sort of flaming rock warrior brandishing two swords in the name of synthetic benchmarking. I guess it’s mean to make you feel as awesome as you’re going to feel while benchmarking your Windows 8 computer. That guy is totally going to cut you up good.
Just This Guy ...
Tuesday, November 15, 2011 at 3:21 PMOooh I can hardly wait to run tests on my ‘puters.
Because actually using them is sooo boring and if my rig/s don’t score well, then they must be crap regardless of how well I can play anything on ‘em.
Greg
Tuesday, November 15, 2011 at 5:22 PMGreat, I only just built my pc and it can’t even run at 4 frames a sec on performance settings in the current iteration of 3d mark
chris
Tuesday, November 15, 2011 at 11:30 PM“it’ll probably be demos of steampunk elephants falling out of the sky into a nuclear reactor and robot princesses slap-fighting in a snowstorm”
LOL! I think your spot on there! :)
TSH
Wednesday, November 16, 2011 at 12:12 PMIs 3DMark really taken seriously, at all? AFAIK it’s tools like Prime95 that are used as an objective measure of performance these days.