German hardware site PC Games Hardware got a chance to sit down with Oliver Baltuch and Dr. Jukka Makinen from Futuremark to discuss the upcoming 3DMark Vantage. Among others they discuss the pricing, and if the new version of 3DMark would use the same pricing approach as the recently launched PCMark Vantage uses. It will. There will be a free version that runs once and then you have to buy a basic version for around €5 if you want to run it again. They ask a range of general question before they get to the good stuff.
When asked about multi-core support, Dr. Makinen replied that the games tests will stress the GPU foremost and that the “CPU scaling in these tests will be limited by design”. The CPU tests on the other hand will scale beyond 4 cores. We also find out that 3DMark Vantage is 32-bit and will not gain anything from running in a 64-bit environment.
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