No more ball parking required this time as Futuremark has announced that 3DMark Vantage is now gold and will be officially introduced Monday, April 28 at around 13:00 GMT or 09:00 EST. The seventh benchmark in the 3DMark series comes with new tests for GPUs, CPUs and PPUs, four difference performance presets and more. 3DMark Vantage will be available in four versions, - Trial, Basic, Advanced and Professional, with the first one being free and enabling a single test run. The Basic version which costs $6.95 will let you do “infinite” runs but only using the Performance preset, the Advanced version ($19.95) will unlock all presets, six features tests and setting customization while the most expensive version, Professional ($495) is for business and commercial use.

The minimum requirements for 3DMark Vantage are:

Minimum

x86/x64 single core CPU with SSE2 support. Performance similar to Intel Pentium D 3.2GHz or better
Fully D3D10/SM4.0 compliant graphics card, 256MB
1024MB Memory
2GB of free disk space
Windows Vista (Server editions not supported)

Recommended

Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 or equivalent AMD CPU
Fully D3D10/SM4.0 compliant graphics card, 512MB
2048MB Memory
2GB of free disk space
Windows Vista (Server editions not supported)

…while, depending on the preset used, you’ll need:

- Entry - 128MB DX10 Video Card and a monitor capable of displaying 1280×1024 resolution
- Performance - 256MB DX10 Video Card and a monitor capable of displaying 1280×1024 resolution
- High - 512MB DX10 Video Card and a monitor capable of displaying 1680×1050 resolution
- Extreme - 512MB DX10 Video Card and a monitor capable of displaying 1920×1200 resolution

More details are coming Monday so try to enjoy the weekend.

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