3DMark can hardly be unknown to anyone here at NH, so any further presentation should be pretty redundant. In the latest version, 3DMark 06, the developer FutureMark chose to include a multithreaded CPU test that was also included in the final score. This has forced benchmarkers to use a quad-core processor to be able to measure up to the elite. VR-Zone now reports that FutureMark has decided to multithread the entire next 3DMark, I.e. version 07, including the game tests.
