Software company Unigine has set new benchmark software released for the pc. The Valley Benchmark is designed to run stress tests on gpu’s. In addition, Unigine a new version of the Heaven benchmark was released.
The Valley Benchmark renders using the Unigine engine, a natural landscape. According to the software developer, the user can to the smallest detail zoom, while the virtual surface of the valley is 64,000 square miles would be large. The weather can be customized by the user. When rendering the landscape, various graphics capabilities of modern gpus is exploited.
Primary is the Valley Benchmark is designed to stress-test graphics processors. This can be done under Windows, OS X, and Linux. Furthermore, Unigine that the new benchmark provides support for 3d viewing and multi-setups. In addition to a free version provides a 19,95 dollar Advanced-implementation support for command line management. Also, there is an almost 500 dollar Professional Edition, which among other things, the ability to frameniveau analyses apply to software-rendering.
Besides the Valley Benchmark has Unigine also version 4.0 of Heaven benchmark is released. This cross-platform benchmark supports DirectX 9 and 11 and OpenGL 4.0. New include the addition of benchmarking presets, and monitoring the gpu temperature and clock speed. Also contains, Heaven 4.0, the latest version of the Unigine engine. Also of the Heaven benchmark Advanced and Professional editions available.