3DMark Vantage: now supports only Vista

14th May 2008

A new version of the popular program for testing workstations, 3DMark Vantage, has come out. The utility tests processor, video cards, tools for measuring images quality and much more. The new version of the benchmark is available for Windows Vista only and supports only DirectX 10, so those who work with DirectX 9 under Windows XP, had to be satisfied with the previous version of 3DMark06.
3DMark Vantage is available in four versions: Trial, Basic, Advanced and Professional. The first one is free and provides the opportunity to run the test only once. Basic version, priced at $ 6.95, runs tests an unlimited number of times, but only using the level of difficulty Performance. Advanced version ($ 19.95) gives an opportunity to use all four levels of complexity, as well as all available tests and settings. Finally, Professional version ($ 495) is intended for commercial use.
Recommended system requirements:
processor Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 or an equivalent AMD;
video card of 512 MB and full support of D3D10/SM4.0;
RAM of 2 GB;
at least 2 GB of free HDD space.