3DMark Vantage is the new industry standard PC gaming performance benchmark from Futuremark, newly designed for Windows Vista and DirectX10. It includes two new graphics tests, two new CPU tests, several new feature tests, and support for the latest hardware. 3DMark Vantage is based on a completely new rendering engine, developed specifically to take full advantage of DirectX10, the new graphics API from Microsoft.

Presets
A key new feature in 3DMarkŪ Vantage is the rendering option Presets. These pre-selected combinations of rendering option settings, like resolution, anti-aliasing and texture quality, represent different, successively more advanced levels of visual quality. When running 3DMarkŪ Vantage with one of the presets selected, the benchmark produces an official score for that preset. Instead of the single default setting of previous 3DMarks, there are four Presets available for Entry, Performance, High and Extreme visual quality.

Minimum System requirements

• Processor: Recommendation: A dual-core processor with performance equivalent to Intel Core 2 Duo E6600, AMD Athlon X2 6000+, or higher
• Graphics Card: Requirement: Fully DirectX10-compliant graphics hardware
• Monitor: Capable of 1280x1024 resolution
• System Memory: Windows Vista minimum requirement
• Hard Disk: 1 GB of free hard disk space
• Operating System: Requirement: Windows Vista with Service Pack 1

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