Futuremark 3DMark2006 Info & Screenshots

According to our friends from HKEPC, some manufacturers have received a copy of 3DMark2006 Beta for internal testing but there is no scoring function yet in the beta copy for confidential reasons. There is particular game test in 3DMark06 which is similar to the Game Test 3 “Canyon Flight” of 3DMark05 but now it utilizes lots of HDR and SM3.0. Certainly the sea monster looks a lot better indeed from what we have seen. Things are not looking too rosy for ATi previous generation cards such as X300/500/600/700/800 that don’t support SM 3.0 but it is fine for NVIDIA GeForce 6 series.

Depending on how in-depth 06 uses SM3.0 and HDR, that could really have a huge role in the scores. It looks like ATI may be left behind before it even has a chance. Check out the look at VR-Zone.