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This month, Futuremark began rolling out the Cyan Room benchmark, its latest virtual reality focussed benchmark for the VRMark software. We've known for a while that AMD has been pushing for higher VR performance on its GPUs but it seems that Vega really shines in this particular benchmark. In an …

One of the most satisfying parts about building a new system is putting it through its paces and seeing how much more performance you are getting. If you are in need of a new benchmark to spice things up though, then Futuremark has you covered, as 3DMark TimeSpy Extreme will …

Earlier this year we did our best to test how some of the world's best graphics cards stand up to virtual reality. All we had at the time was Steam's simple VR benchmark, but it gave us a decent enough baseline to work with. Now though Futuremark has officially released …

Futuremark has this week announced that it had begun development of the world’s first comprehensive suite to measure performance of workloads associated with virtual reality. The new benchmark will test performance of personal computers as well as VR headsets. VRMark is expected to be released this year and currently Futuremark …

The buzz around 4K gaming has been growing fast this year, with many enthusiasts adopting new monitors as they come down in price but until now, there hadn't been an Ultra HD benchmarking tool available. Futuremark has officially released Fire Strike Ultra, the world's first 4K benchmark, which is now …

Maybe it's mean to rank the Ouya in terms of its hardware power, as for £99 it was never going to be a real workhorse, but when you're using an Android OS that doesn't have access to the Google Play store, you better have something else to sell the hardware, …

Following its first swallow-up in June of last year when it acquired Kombo Animation Studio, Angry Birds creator Rovio has just aimed its slingshot and hit dead on at an even bigger target – none other than Futuremark's “Games Studio” division. A formal announcement has been given on Rovio's website …

Futuremark have just released an update to 3DMark 11 which is available for download from their website, and from media partners. You can get the update here http://www.3dmark.com/3dmark11/download/update/ Release Notes for 3DMark 11 v1.0.3: Bullet physics library updated to version 2.79 to improve compatibility with future CPUs and GPUs. For …

You don't have to be the world's biggest sports buff to know that refereeing is a thankless task. When competitors go head-to-head for the biggest prizes, creating the leading benchmark by which all of their multi-multi-million dollar research and development will be judged is a serious business. Presiding over Futuremark …

In June Futuremark ran a worldwide overclocking competition to push the limits of performance for PCs using Sandy Bridge chipsets. Today, Futuremark congratulates the winners of the contest that saw thousands of entries from more than 60 countries. This contest segment was restricted to PCs with Intel's new Sandy Bridge …

Futuremark® today announced the return of its annual Lords of Overclocking competition for PC users everywhere. This year’s event, the largest of its type, will see overclocking pros, enthusiasts and hobbyists from Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas use 3DMark® 11 and MSI brand graphics cards to compete for the …

3DMark 11 has been released now for a week, and already Futuremark say they have received around 200,000 result submissions from overclockers and enthusiasts across the globe. They have found a few issues that they didn't catch during their own testing phase and they have just released an update to …

To celebrate the release of the new 3dMark 11, Futuremark have kindly given KitGuru two Advanced Edition codes to give away to two lucky readers. All you need to do to enter is to tell us on the forums why you want one of these codes. We want to keep …

The extremely popular benchmark 3DMark is due for an update at the end of this month. Futuremark have announced the official launch date as November 30th 2010. 3DMark 2011 is a Direct X 11 only benchmark and is going to be made available in three versions, Basic, Advanced and Professional. …