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Unigine provides an interesting way to test hardware. It can be easily adapted to various projects due to its elaborated software design and flexible toolset. A lot of their customers claim that they have never seen such extremely-effective code, which is so easy to understand.

Heaven Benchmark is a DirectX 11 GPU benchmark based on advanced Unigine engine from Unigine Corp. It reveals the enchanting magic of floating islands with a tiny village hidden in the cloudy skies. Interactive mode provides emerging experience of exploring the intricate world of steampunk.

Efficient and well-architected framework makes Unigine highly scalable:

• Multiple API (DirectX 9 / DirectX 10 / DirectX 11 / OpenGL) render
• Cross-platform: MS Windows (XP, Vista, Windows 7) / Linux
• Full support of 32bit and 64bit systems
• Multicore CPU support
• Little / big endian support (ready for game consoles)
• Powerful C++ API
• Comprehensive performance profiling system
• Flexible XML-based data structures

The graphics-heavy Unigine Heaven benchmark seems to prefer Haswell's architectural enhancements over the IVB-E chip's extra cores and threads, although the performance difference between each of the processors is barely 1% (and presumably within the Heaven benchmark's error margin).

What this test better shows is that none of the processors being compared today are likely to bottleneck a graphics configuration comparable to the GTX 760 in Unigine's Heaven benchmark.

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