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.
In CrossfireX the XFX HD6850 score over 22k in 3dmark Vantage at Performance, which is a very good result for a pair of cards costing £150 each. When we compare with the last generation HD5770 running in Crossfire, we can see that this is an improvement of around 5,000 points.
A single card scores 12,589 points which is very close to the eVGA GTX460 768mb Superclocked Edition (12,776 points), another solid result for XFX.