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The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time - Bertrand Russell
New 3D benchmark appears
LIGHTING OF a 3D scene is extremely important, but so far there haven't been many benchmarks in that area. But at the end of October, Stepan Hrbek from Czech, more known as Dee.cz published his free new benchmark, Lightmark.
Unlike 3DMark and other complex benchmarks, this one offers quite good looks and performance to lower and more affordable segment of 3D market. Thanks to efficiency of OpenGL 2.0, a flyby scene featuring global illumination and penumbra shadows can run on mid-class hardware.
Scene from Lightmark, taken at 1680x1050 (sadly, we could not get
Fraps to take the screenshot, this is a generic one)
Bear in mind that Global illumination is a feature that AMD will heavily promote with its HD3800 series of graphics cards, so don't be surprised if this benchmark starts to pop on every decent hardware website.
When it comes to Daamit, the original version of Lightmark (1.1.1) had a bug with Radeon HD 2000/3000 cards, but now Stepan has issued a new version (1.2), featuring a workaround for owners of HD 2000/3000 cards. Also, the author improved compatibility with 32- and 64-bit versions of Windows Vista and included source code with the benchmark.
You can check this benchmark out using our complementary L'INQ. We wish all the best to Stepan in further development of this rather good test. µ
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Lightmark homepage
Lightmark
1.2 download (file)
Lightmark
1.2 download (torrent file)
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One Thing about TV is that it was first demostrated as cable from camera to Round Tube in Czech, about 1870 at Praha Univ.

10 years latter thay already had Colour Display, Zoe Camera had lens of Differnt color to filter Light, so its not surprising item like color illumination test would be helpful.

My Uncle was Prof at Praha, in Philosophy thru 1960s', yet after Russian invasion (1967), Few original Population Remain.

Isn't that Loft where Anne van Frank from Frankfort Lived & drove that government Inteligence Truck p-30?
thomas stewart von drashek
I just wana say thanks for creating a benchmarking program that is free, and isnt biased to one type of hardware, please if it become popular I dont mind paying 5 buks or something for it but dont charge an arm and a leg like *cough* futuremark

thanks INQ and lightsmark

now all we need is amd to launch phenom, and all will be right in the world :P
It's "Lightsmark", not "Lightmark".