The big picture: Team Red conceded the top-end performance tier to Nvidia when the RDNA 3 and Ada Lovelace desktop graphics cards launched last year. However, benchmarks show a much smaller gap ...

Since the Vulkan API was officially released as Vulkan 1.0 on February 16, 2016, Ars Technica UK Performs benchmark tests to verify performance. The test was conducted on ASUS X99 Deluxe, CPU is Core ...

Tomorrow's VR (virtual reality) applications are going to usher in a new era of graphics based on the Khronos Group's Vulkan API. To make sure the industry is properly equipped to benchmark such ...

GAINESVILLE, Va., May 01, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC), the trusted global leader in computing benchmarks, today announced the availability of the ...

While Microsoft's DirectX 12 may have been the first low-level API to appear on PC (excepting AMD's proprietary Mantle API), its arch-rival Vulkan is potentially more interesting. Vulkan promises to ...

The first benchmark results for desktop cards with Intel's Limited Edition of Arc have been spotted. Two graphics APIs, Vulkan and OpenCL, were used to test both cards. Only the first GPU could hint ...

As reviewers are busy testing Intel’s Arc B580 Battlemage graphics cards, the recent leak shows it to be faster in Vulkan and Open CL benchmarks at Geekbench, beating both the RTX 4070 and the RX 7600 ...

Synthetic benchmark specialist Futuremark is reportedly preparing some new components for its 3DMark benchmark suite. 'The Gamer's Benchmark' will be expanded with a couple of worthy additions, ...

3DMark synthetic GPU benchmarks have been a staple part of the review process here at TweakTown for a long time, and over the years, the two big standout tests have been the DirectX 11-based ...

With every new graphics API being launched, new benchmarks are imperative. In order to understand how our hardware really performs, benchmarks must be designed with the API being tested in mind. This ...

In an email send to press FutureMark shared that they are hard at work on new new game-tests for its 3DMark benchmark suite Futuremark is prepping to talk about new benchmarks we're planning for 2017, ...

Futuremark added the Vulkan API to its Overhead test in 3Dmark, letting users see how their system handles draw calls in DirectX 11, 12, and now Vulkan. Although Vulkan should decimate DirectX 11 in ...