3DMark News

On 26th October 2023, 3DMark reached 25 years old.

Thank you to the 3DMark community, who have joined us in discovering what the cutting edge of PC hardware can do over this last quarter of a century. The gamers, overclockers, hardware reviewers, tech-heads, and those in the industry using our benchmarks.

3DMark99 - our first benchmark, built with DirectX 6.

We love seeing the results roll in when we release a new benchmark, and we're astonished every time by the lengths members of the community go to snag the top spots in the 3DMark Hall of Fame.

Thank you to the members of our benchmark development program, who we work with to make sure each benchmark shows off the very best of new technologies for games and that our implementation is fair and balanced across all hardware.

And thank you to the members of the media, who use our benchmarks for hours on end while gathering data for their hardware reviews.

3DMark Speed Way, our most demanding benchmark so far.

It blows our minds how far PC graphics have come, and we’re very excited to see what the next 25 years bring.

- The Benchmarks team at UL Solutions

UL benchmarks use a component called SystemInfo to identify the hardware in your system. This patch updates SystemInfo to version 5.68.
[h2]SystemInfo 5.68[/h2]

• Updated CPUID module to improve compatibility with latest hardware and to fix an issue that could cause the SystemInfo scan to hang.
  

This is a minor update. Benchmark scores will not be affected.

Fixed

• Fixed an issue where the results screen for the Solar Bay stress test would fail to display results, showing an 'error.result_missing' error.
  

This is a minor update. Benchmark scores will not be affected.

Fixed

• Fixed an issue where the results page monitoring graphs would show the wrong value for GPU memory clock on some hardware configurations.
  
• Fixed an issue on systems with HDR displays where some programs would display colors incorrectly after a Wild Life Extreme or Solar Bay benchmark run.
  
• Fixed an issue where the Speed Way results page would not correctly display game performance estimates.
  
• Updated 3DMark Solar Bay to bring the implementation in line with 3DMark Solar Bay for iOS. These are minimal functional changes and do not meaningfully affect benchmark results.
  
• The results screen will now clearly communicate if the result is invalid due to the SystemInfo component being corrupted and failing a checksum test.
  

UL benchmarks use a component called SystemInfo to identify the hardware in your system. This patch updates SystemInfo to version 5.67.
[h2]SystemInfo 5.67[/h2]

• Updated GPU detection module to improve compatibility with latest hardware.
  
• Fixed an issue that prevented RGB controls from functioning correctly on Gigabyte RTX 4090 cards.