The world of 3DMark has gone through a lot of changes in the last decade and without a doubt has seen its up and downs. From 3DMark2001 to 3DMark05 the application was considered THE de-facto graphics card benchmark and was responsible for billion-dollar companies like ATI and NVIDIA technology decisions. In recent years it has come under fire in the oft-debated "real world versus synthetic" testing debate - I won't get into the dirty details of any of that here and will instead focus on the topic at hand: 3DMark Vantage.
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