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3DMark 05 & 06 Business Edition

Literally millions and millions benchmark results have been submitted to Futuremarks Online ResultBrowser database. It has become a point of great prestige to be the holder of the highest 3DMark score. A compelling, easy-to-use interface has made 3DMark very popular among game enthusiasts. Futuremarks latest benchmark series, 3DMark03 up-to 3DMark06, continues this tradition by providing a Microsoft DirectX 9 benchmark.

The introduction of DirectX 9 and new hardware shader technologies puts a lot of power in the hands of game developers. Increasingly realistic 3D games will be available over the next year and a half. The use of 3D graphics will become more accessible to other applications areas and even operating systems.

In 3Dmark06 we push a score of a near 5350 points for the GT and 5883 for the GTS; which really is a pretty nice score for the money. Unfortunately the influence of the CPU has such an impact on the overall score that the 06 scores as far as I'm concerned are not reliable any longer.

We see similar scaling on 3Dmark05 with nearly 11166 (GT) and 12220 (GTS) points.

Yeah, you guessed it already. BTW make note of the performance from the Galaxy GTS card. Core and memory clocks are the lowest among all the GTS cards yet the score is really good (throughout most benchamarks actually). This is because Galaxy overclocks the Shader unitdomain really high. We'll get back on that later.