The next chapter in Futuremark’s synthetic benchmarking suite has finally arrived — 3DMark2005. Perhaps the term “synthetic” is slightly disingenuous; after all, the 3DMark score itself has always been derived from the in-built game simulations and never from the abstract “feature” tests. Some people might argue that a score that derives from a single rendering engine can never reflect hardware performance across a wide range of games. Although this may be true, I believe that it completely misses the point of the 3DMark result.



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