3DMark06

Although professional graphics accelerators are hardly ever used for gaming, we decided to add the results of a popular FutureMark 3DMark06 gaming benchmark. Unlike CAD and 3D modeling applications, this benchmark can test the GPU computational capabilities used for shader processing best of all.

This is where we see that the gaming workload is very different from the load in professional applications. The results of 3Dmark06 are completely different, as it doesn’t care about how fast the triangles are displayed, but needs to process shaders, which are barely used in professional graphics.