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.
Powercolor's HD6850 Single Slot Edition falls in just behind the overclocked GTX460 with 13,445 points. With this Direct X 10 benchmark it is slightly faster than Sapphire's HD5830 Xtreme Edition.