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3DMark 06 Overview and Performance
January 18, 2006   Alan Dang > [View My Other Articles]
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The return of the fireflies


Test 2: Firefly Forest

The forest scene from 3DMark 05 also returns in 3DMark06. Like Return to Proxycon, FutureMark has added more stress to the graphics card through incremental changes. You now have two “fireflies” instead of just one. The moonlight is done using CSM, while the fireflies are masked point lights with a 1024x1024x6 cube depth map/hardware shadow map.

3DMark 06 Overview and Performance [ Why can't RPGs look like this? @ 1280 x 1024 ] > View Full-Size in another window.
Why can't RPGs look like this?
3DMark 06 Overview and Performance [ The beetle is only part of the 3DMark 06 demo @ 1280 x 1024 ] > View Full-Size in another window.
The beetle is only part of the 3DMark 06 demo
3DMark 06 Overview and Performance [ Lots of vegetation @ 1280 x 1024 ] > View Full-Size in another window.
Lots of vegetation
3DMark 06 Overview and Performance [ Lots of fog @ 1280 x 1024 ] > View Full-Size in another window.
Lots of fog
3DMark 06 Overview and Performance [ More sophisticated lighting @ 1280 x 1024 ] > View Full-Size in another window.
More sophisticated lighting
3DMark 06 Overview and Performance [ Awww... @ 1280 x 1024 ] > View Full-Size in another window.
Awww...



3DMark 06 Overview and Performance [ 3DMark 05 (left) vs 3DMark 06 (right) @ 2048 x 768 ] > View Full-Size in another window.
3DMark 05 (left) vs 3DMark 06 (right)
3DMark 06 Overview and Performance [ 3DMark 05 (left) vs 3DMark 06 (right) @ 2048 x 768 ] > View Full-Size in another window.
3DMark 05 (left) vs 3DMark 06 (right)
3DMark 06 Overview and Performance [ 3DMark 05 (left) vs 3DMark 06 (right) @ 2048 x 768 ] > View Full-Size in another window.
3DMark 05 (left) vs 3DMark 06 (right)

Essentially, for the first two tests, FutureMark has take the 3DMark 05 scenes and made some incremental changes to toughen them up. The next two tests have more changes.


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