4 weeks to go, then Q1 ends ;)

The first quarter of 2024 is almost over, is there still a chance? Or is it going to be postponed to the second quarter?

For a long time, there has been a lack of true cross-platform GPU testing. WLE is actually not very accurate, which severely overestimates mobile GPU architectures (Apple, Mali/Immortalis, Adreno) and slightly underestimates AMD GPU, especially in complex scenes. Steel Nomad is a great opportunity to turn the situation around. It's the benchmark the entire industry is looking forward to.

WLE is quite fine for the workload, which is light by design.

Which means obviously high end desktop cards will not be fully pushed. But you can't avoid this - anything that truly pushes high end desktop cards will just crash or run <5fps on mobile phones, hurting result precision.

That is also why Steel Nomad will have to do two versions of the scene (normal and light) - even the light one will be hard for phones and the normal version will not work on phone hardware anytime soon.

Thanks in advance!

Honestly very fair play to the devs here, This is very uncommon for software like this, least a software that regulary goes for as low as 10GBP or lower usd i imagine this is being subidised by enterprise, but regardless they are doing a good job here, speedway however should of been free as mentioned, as its one big giant lenovo add, to charge for it is insane.

You grossly overestimate the sponsorship deal (Lenovo / Speed Way) size.

It is a nice additional slice for the budget when someone sponsors a test and it gave some marketing support in China (Lenovo promoting the partnership there) but no way we could have released the test for free just on that sponsorship. The deal probably was missing one extra zero for that.

And it is very likely there will be paid additional tests in the future as well.

If you look at the timeline here:

https://benchmarks.ul.com/support/3dmark-updates-and-upgrades

Roughly once every 2-3 years there has been a paid upgrade to 3DMark. I see no reason why this model would not continue. It is still far better way for the customers than the old system where every 2 years or so a new full price 3DMark was released (3DMark03, 05, 06, Vantage, 11...) and the only benefit for existing customers was that new product was available 50% off if you owned the previous one. Development costs money and while industry also chips in (thru membership fees in 3DMark Benchmark Development Program), it cannot fund it alone. Also the fact that end user revenue from Advanced Edition licenses and Upgrades is a major part of the funding ensures that the test cannot be "taken over" by industry requirements. We are very serious about being impartial and fair, and this requires that the funding is not concentrated in a way that would allow any one party to dictate anything.

11 days left in the 1st quarter. Are we still going to get it in the 1st quarter or is it going to be pushed back?

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11 days left in the 1st quarter. Are we still going to get it in the 1st quarter or is it going to be pushed back?

I'm waiting to, lol.

9 days left

7 days left. (not counting today)

1 week left in the 1st quarter. Is it gonna make it?

"3DMark Steel Nomad will be a free update for all 3DMark Users.
Coming Q1 2024."

scottz63 の投稿を引用：

1 week left in the 1st quarter. Is it gonna make it?

"3DMark Steel Nomad will be a free update for all 3DMark Users.
Coming Q1 2024."

I doubt it, or maybe on the last day

Where update banana

Q1 ending on Monday...