Cost of a benchmark today: 3DMarkVantage budget was five million dollars
 

Futuremark Corporation has released its 3DMark Vantage a benchmark that will surely be run by the major hardware sites thousands of times in the next few days. The DirectX 10.0 benchmark (yes, it uses 10.0, not 10.1) has native support for 32- and 64-bit mode and a host of other interesting features.
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*Source: TG Daily (http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/37149/135/)*

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