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.
3Dmark Vantage shows a significant performance boost, even within our ‘mid range' Core i7 950 overclocked system. Significant performance gains are to be gained from an ‘upgrade' purchase of the new nVidia solution.