Futuremark has announced that it is currently working on two new 3DMark benchmarks. The first one will be a DX12 test, while the second one will be a Vulkan test, and it is reported that these two new tests will be added to 3DMark in early 2017.
According to TechPowerUp, the DX12 test will not be as demanding as Time Spy. Futuremark appears to be targeting notebook graphics and entry-mainstream graphics cards with this benchmark, so you should not expect it to stress your graphics cards as Time Spy does.
The second benchmark test will be taking advantage of the Vulkan API, and Futuremark plans to release this Vulkan-based benchmark for both Windows and Android platforms. Futuremark did not reveal whether this test will be as demanding as Time Spy or not.
Futuremark is also working on new VR benchmarks for PC and mobile platforms, and aims to release these VR benchmarks soon.
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I hope they include it in the base package I’ve already bought and don’t sell it as a separate program as they did with VRmark. At the very least keep the price low enough and sell it as DLC add-on to the main futuremark program.
So don’t make the DX 12 one demanding, but make the Vulkan one demanding, so as to make DX 12 look better?.
There’s already a “demanding” DX12 benchmark provided by futuremark. Albeit, not well coded it seems.
Making a second one that’s better coding would suffice and balance the field.
True. Misread OP. My bad.
Will this one be held back by NVIDIA as well?
If they pump-up $Mo$ to the Dev YES 100% Sure 😉
And after that they say: it’s safe approach -> ha ha ha
I hope it will be a true DX12 benchmark this time, true support for Async Compute and more of DX12 features .
Futuremark is done after Time Spy……irelevant.