Futuremark released 3DMark Vantage, on April 28, 2008. It is a benchmark based upon DirectX 10, and therefore will only run under Windows Vista (Service Pack 1 is stated as a requirement) and Windows 7. This is the first edition where the feature-restricted, free of charge version could not be used any number of times. 1280×1024 resolution was used with performance settings.
A score of 18,373 points is extremely positive. In real world terms this is actually 1,300 points more than we achieved with the excellent Sapphire HD6870 Dual Fan Overclocked Edition when we tested it within an overclocked Core i7 970 desktop system.