I'm real excited! Thanks for the explanation on the challenges of developing for Linux. It seems like porting to Linux is often not the most rewarding business wise, but it does make a big impact, and is appreciated.

God bless, 3DMark you guys are awesome! Will definitely purchase the full package once it releases :D

UL_Jarnis の投稿を引用：

Just to temper expectations: We are working for "proper" Mac and Linux support, but it will not all be there in time for Steel Nomad launch. Current plan is that Mac will come first (sometime soon after Windows version) while Linux will come later in 2024. There is a lot of work remaining related to the UI and support for online functionality on these platforms that appears "simple" but actually is quite complex to do properly.

The workloads themselves already do run on Mac and Linux internally, but that is only part of the whole package and we would like these platforms to be more equal to Windows going forward. Just do not expect it all to happen instantly, it will take time.

Also we do not plan to port older tests to these platforms, so initially the pool of available tests will be limited. Only Steel Nomad and Steel Nomad Light has been confirmed at this time.

Future test availability on Mac or Linux depends on the technologies being used with each test - some things may only make sense on Windows, for example - but intention is to always have some tests that can be used to compare across platforms and to get the workloads as close to each other between DirectX, Vulkan and Metal as possible.

And just to be clear, Steel Nomad will work similar to Time Spy in that Steel Nomad and Steel Nomad light will be available in 3DMark Demo with just the default runs as the intention is that they will supersede Time Spy and Night Raid as the "primary" tests. Then anyone with any 3DMark Advanced Edition license (even just the oldest 3DM-ICF-) will have all custom options and Stress Test mode available for Steel Nomad and Steel Nomad Light.

Thanks for keeping Linux in mind, will other benchmarks be available in the future?

Linux has a promising future in games and graphics!!

Finally a professional GPU benchmark for Linux!

Desert punk vibes, is one of your devs a fan?

Free? i take it! ty devs

As a sucker for beautiful benchmarks, I can't wait for this to drop.

Dope.

Does this mean the app will officially support Linux finally?

Whiny Anakin の投稿を引用：

Does this mean the app will officially support Linux finally? :gnomechild:

Eventually, yes. When Linux UI is done.

Hmm we need a version of it that can run on both x86 PC and Apple silicon macs, since the latter has performance in the same range.

That is indeed coming with Steel Nomad with "proper" Mac version (with things like result upload to 3dmark.com and custom settings)

You can already compare them by running iOS version of Solar Bay or Wild Life Extreme (which can be done on Apple Silicon macs) vs Windows versions. The workloads and scores are comparable.

Sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet!!!!

manKe の投稿を引用：

OMG something free from 3Dmark

daloco1 の投稿を引用：

manKe の投稿を引用：

OMG something free from 3Dmark

exactly.

exactly 2

I assume the Linux release is going to use Vulkan. Is that correct? Will the Windows release support both Direct3D and Vulkan? Will the Linux release be able to detect when it is being run on another OS with a Linux compatibility layer such as FreeBSD so the submitted results aren't tainted? To be honest, I'd probably be the first one to taint it in that way.