The latest benchmark, 3DMark Steel Nomad, is set to debut in the first quarter of 2024. It will be available on various platforms such as UL Solutions website, Steam, Epic Games Store, as well as on smartphones with Android and iOS through Google Play and the Apple App Store. It serves as a spiritual successor to the popular benchmark, Time Spy, and is intended to test performance in pure rasterization.
One of the main features of 3DMark Steel Nomad is its universality, allowing for comparisons of results both on PC and on smartphones and tablets. This benchmark will be suitable for current graphics cards as well as those that have not yet been released on the market.
3DMark Steel Nomad will be available in two versions. The basic version will be designed to test high-performance graphics cards, while the second version, 3DMark Steel Nomad Light, will focus mainly on integrated graphics, laptops with ARM processors, Apple MacBook notebooks with Apple Silicon chips, as well as smartphones with Android and iOS.
Initially, the benchmark will be available for Windows users, with versions for macOS, Android, and iOS to be released at a later date in 2024. An interesting piece of information is that 3DMark Steel Nomad will be available for free to all 3DMark platform users.
Frequently Asked Questions:
1. What is a benchmark?
A benchmark is a performance test that allows for comparisons of different hardware components such as graphics cards, processors, or hard drives.
2. What is rasterization?
Rasterization is the process of converting vector graphics into raster graphics, which consist of pixels.
Source: UL Solutions
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