The Futuremark team just released a batch of gorgeous screenshots of
3DMark
Vantage, their DirectX 10-exclusive benchmarking suite that'll make full use
of Shader Model 4.0 and all those other lovely associated graphical effects: No
date has been set for the release of Vantage, but recommended system
requirements are available: an Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 or equivalent AMD CPU, a
fully DX10/SM4.0 compliant graphics card with 512MB of RAM, and 2GB of system
RAM. Minimum specs come to a x86/x64 single core CPU with SSE2 support or Intel
Pentium D 3.2GHz, a fully DX10/SM4.0 compliant graphics card with 256MB of RAM,
and 1GB of system RAM.
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