UL Benchmarks Launches 3DMark Speedway DirectX 12 Ultimate Benchmark

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Bought it today, haven't checked the details of which features it's testing precisely out of DX12 ultimate but it looks pretty cool. For a brief moment I had the 13th best score for 3090+5900X on this benchmark, guess it deserves a cookie at least.
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Love me tech demos, simple as.
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It could have been more. Hope they add to it.
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The interactive mode is cool. They put a lot details in. Although the glaring oversight is that there is no built-in FPS counter in the interactive mode.
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I can absolutely see the value in paying for this benchmark suite for a wonderful site like this one, but why in the world would any casual user want to pay for these "play once and yawn" tech demos?!
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dragonlord:

I can absolutely see the value in paying for this benchmark suite for a wonderful site like this one, but why in the world would any casual user want to pay for these "play once and yawn" tech demos?!
I've used most of them for years to benchmark my gpu's.....started with the GTX 970....all the way up until recently. Over the years I've benched just about every gpu I've had. I think last check I had 12 on one of my spreadsheets. With that said.....Other than having to pay for I think the Time Spy, and Speed Way DLC, I bought my suite when it was on sale via Steam, for maybe 5.00(US). I've even bought it for several friends when it's been on sale. I guess they still have a "demo" mode you can run for free....not sure. I have the full suite, VR Mark, and PCMark. I'm a bit of a benchmark junky....lol
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dragonlord:

I can absolutely see the value in paying for this benchmark suite for a wonderful site like this one, but why in the world would any casual user want to pay for these "play once and yawn" tech demos?!
been using it for years now, it's nice to chart progress with your GPU upgrades and all your results are stored on their servers.
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dragonlord:

I can absolutely see the value in paying for this benchmark suite for a wonderful site like this one, but why in the world would any casual user want to pay for these "play once and yawn" tech demos?!
Casual users won't. Others who enjoy tweaking their systems or compare performance between things, for whatever reason, will find value in it.
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AlmondMan:

Casual users won't. Others who enjoy tweaking their systems or compare performance between things, for whatever reason, will find value in it.
That is exactly who this is for.
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I wouldn't consider myself to be a hardcore PC performance tweaker, I benchmark after driver updates or bios updates and such to ensure the PC is running well after said updates. Plus, it is fun to see improvements when overclocking CPU or GPU or both and to see improvements over the years when performing CPU or GPU upgrades.
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Guess this isnt bad for my setup. Not sure yet lol
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Tried to upgrade to this... but can't figure out how... Run latest 3DMark (2.24.7509 64)... Speedway->Upgrade->Buy... sends me to this page ... https://benchmarks.ul.com/3dmark/buy?utm_source=basic-edition&utm_medium=app&utm_content=upgrade-screen&utm_campaign=3dmark-upgrade Which does not list the new Speedway benchmark on it... in fact it doesn't seem to allow you to do anything apart from buy Advanced Edition again... which I already have?!? F%**ing geniuses! Way to deny yourselves sales there Futuremark (or whoever owns/runs it now)!!
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geogan:

Tried to upgrade to this... but can't figure out how... Run latest 3DMark (2.24.7509 64)... Speedway->Upgrade->Buy... sends me to this page ... https://benchmarks.ul.com/3dmark/buy?utm_source=basic-edition&utm_medium=app&utm_content=upgrade-screen&utm_campaign=3dmark-upgrade Which does not list the new Speedway benchmark on it... in fact it doesn't seem to allow you to do anything apart from buy Advanced Edition again... which I already have?!? F%**ing geniuses! Way to deny yourselves sales there Futuremark (or whoever owns/runs it now)!!
https://benchmarks.ul.com/3dmark Scroll down the page you will see the benchmark, it's $4.99 US.