Game Test 1 - The Race

• DirectX 6 features used.

• 16-bit colour, 16-bit depth and 16-bit textures.

• Single textures per surface; single pass render.

• Alpha blending (additive and multiplicative) used.

• Bilinear/trilinear texture filtering.

• Vertex fog.

• Up to 19 thousand polygons and 16 thousand vertices per frame; approximately 3MB of textures per frame.

Game Test 2 - First Person

• DirectX 6 features used.

• 16-bit colour, 16-bit depth and 16-bit textures.

• Diffuse gouraud lighting used.

• Two textures per surface applied via multitexturing or two pass rendering.

• Alpha blending (additive and multiplicative) used.

• Bilinear/trilinear texture filtering.

• Vertex fog.

• Up to 20 thousand polygons and 19 thousand vertices per frame; approximately 5MB of textures per frame.

Game Test 1 - Helicopter

• DirectX 7 Hardware TnL pipeline.
• 16-bit colour, 16-bit depth and 16-bit textures (adjustable to 32-bit).
• Triple buffering and bilinear filtering.
• Up to 5 lights per scene, with falloff ranges.

• Up to 53 thousand polygons, 71 thousand vertices and 3MB of textures per frame.

Game Test 2 - Adventure

• DirectX 7 Hardware TnL pipeline.
• 16-bit colour, 16-bit depth and 16-bit textures (adjustable to 32-bit).
• Triple buffering and bilinear filtering.
• Characters and objects have geometry LOD.
• Characters are skinned.
• Up to 8 lights per scene, with falloff ranges.
• Up to 30 thousand polygons, 37 thousand vertices and 3.4MB of textures per frame.

Game Test 1 - Car Chase

• DirectX 8 Pure hardware pipeline.
• Between one and three texture layers are applied to each surface, object and model.
• Non-static models cast render-to-texture shadows that are transformed via vertex shaders.
• Real-time physics models motion and forces.
• 32-bit colour, 24-bit depth and DXTc compressed textures.
• Double buffering and bilinear filtering.
• Up to 200 thousand polygons per frame; up to 24MB compressed textures per frame.

Game Test 4 - Nature

• Leaves and grass blades are alpha textures; geometry processing handled with SM1.1 vertex shaders.
• Character animation and morphing handled via SM1.1 vertex shaders.
• Most surfaces have two texture layers applied.
• Lake material uses a SM1.1 pixel shader to perform per-pixel reflection via an environment cube map.
• 32-bit colour, 24-bit depth and DXTc compressed textures.
• Double buffering and bilinear filtering.
• Up to 180 thousand polygons per frame; up to 15MB compressed textures per frame.

Game Test 3 - Trolls' Lair

• Character model uses a SM1.1 vertex shader and custom physics model to map the motion of each hair strand individually; the lighting model is anisotropic.
• Character skinning is done via a SM1.1 vertex shader.
• Material shaders are either PS1.1 or PS1.4 and uses normal mapping.
• Stencil shadows are cast from one or two light sources; vertex shaders are used to extrude degenerate quads for the shadow calculations.
• Double buffering and bilinear/trilinear filtering.
• Approximately 280 to 560 thousand polygons are processed per frame on average.
• Total texture usage is 64MB; vertex and index buffers are 19MB and 2MB respectively.

Game Test 4 - Mother Nature

• Leaves and grass blades are individual models - their motions are mapped via a SM1.1 vertex shader for the grass and a SM2.0 vertex shader, utilising the sincos function, for each leaf.
• Ground material uses a PS1.4 shader including colour, diffuse, specular and normal maps; an additional map is used to simulate the cloud shadows.
• Sky material uses a PS2.0 shader; the floating point range is required for the high dynamic colour values.
• Lake material uses a PS2.0 shader, involving multiple uses of colour, ripple, reflection, refraction, transparency and Fresnel maps.
• Double buffering and bilinear/trilinear filtering.
• Approximately 780 thousand polygons are rendering per frame.
• Total texture usage is 50MB; vertex and index buffers are 54MB and 9MB respectively.

Game Test 2 - Firefly Forest

• Surface and object material shaders using Blinn-Phong reflections; exponent calculations use texture lookups rather than arithmetic operations.
• Sky material uses a procedural scattering shader.
• Perspective shadow mapping.
• Light from the Moon casts shadows into a 2048 x 2048 D24X8 depth stencil texture or R32F depth texture.
• Depth textures sampled via hardware-supported percentage closest bilinear filtering or 4 sample point filtering if PCF is not supported.
• Light from the firefly uses a cubic depth texture 512 x 512 x 6 in size to cast shadows with.
• Average polygon count is 1.8 million; average vertex count is 2.3 million.
• Approximately 140MB of video memory is used.

Game Test 3 - Canyon Flight

• Rock material shader utilises multiple colour and normal maps to provide Lambertian diffuse lighting.
• Water material shader applies reflection and refraction, as well as Fresnel and depth fog.
• Sky material shader applies procedural light scattering.
• Volumetric fog is used in the sky.
• The Sun provides a single directional light source that casts shadows using a 2048 x 2048 D24X8 DST or R32F depth texture.
• Depth textures sampled via hardware-supported percentage closest bilinear filtering or 4 sample point filtering if PCF is not supported.
• Average polygon count is 1.8 million; average vertex count is 2.3 million.
• Approximately 130MB of video memory is used.

3DMark Next

• HDR rendering.
• Complex HDR post processing.
• Dynamic soft shadows for all objects.
• Water shader with HDR refraction, HDR reflection, depth fog and Gerstner wave functions.
• Heterogeneous fog.
• Atmospheric light scattering.
• Realistic sky model with cloud blending.
• Strauss lighting model for most materials.
• Subsurface scattering shader for some objects (not visible in the shot).
• Texture & normal map sizes: 1024 x 1024 to 2048 x 2048.
• Approximately 5.4 million triangles and 8.8 million vertices.