The Gamers Benchmark
3DMark®05 is best suited for the first generation of DirectX®9.0 graphics cards. It is the first benchmark to require a DirectX9.0 compliant hardware with support for Pixel Shaders 2.0 or higher! By combining high quality 3D tests, CPU tests, feature tests, image quality tools, and much more, 3DMark05 is a premium benchmark for evaluating the previous generation of gaming hardware. 3DMark05 is the answer to the continuously growing challenge in benchmarking!

Pro Online ResultBrowser
The Pro Online ResultBrowser (ORB) is designed and developed specially for 3DMark05 Pro and 3DMark05 Business users. In addition to the normal functionalities such as advanced search & compare, you can do multiple comparisons, get detailed system info, use dynamic compare URLs and much much more. The Pro ORB extends 3DMark05 to the extreme!

• Full support for Microsoft® DirectX®9.0c
• 3 new amazing 3D game tests
• 2 new CPU tests
• A suite of new feature tests
• Batch size tests
• New and improved image quality tools
• Online services. Submit your results and compare them to 3DMark05 results from all over the world.

• x86 compatible processor with MMX support, 2000MHz
• 512MB system memory
• 400MB of hard disk space (required)
• DirectX9 generation graphics card with support for Pixel Shader 2.0 or higher (required)
• Visual C++ 2005 Redist
• Microsoft Windows 2000 or XP operating system (required)
• DirectX9.0c or later (required)