According to the developers the Heaven Benchmark, which is based on the Unigine Engine, is the first DirectX 11 benchmark. PC Games Hardware offers the tool for download.
DirectX-11-Benchmark Unigine Heaven (4) [Source: view picture gallery]
The Unigine Corporation has already released the Sanctuary and Tropics benchmarks. Now a benchmark for DirectX 11 graphics cards is offered, too. The Unigine Engine based Heaven benchmark also offers a fallback to DirectX 9 and DirectX 10 so the test is interesting for all PC users. In the benchmark a floating fantasy world with flying islands is displayed.
Features of the Heaven Benchmark • Native support for OpenGL, DirectX 9, DirectX 10 and DirectX 11 (Compute Shader, Shader Model 5, Hardware Tessellation)
• Advanced SSAO (Screen Space Ambient Occlusion)
• Volumetric Cumulonimbus Clouds
• Dynamic simulation of the moving environment
• Ati Eyefinity support
• Modes that let the users fly or walk through the environment
Heaven Benchmark system requirements • .Net framework 2.0
• OpenAL
• Tessellation: DirectX 11 graphics card
• Graphics card (minimum): Ati Radeon HD 2xxx or Nvidia Geforce 7xxx
• Graphics card (recommended): Nvidia Geforce 8800 or Ati Radeon HD 4800
• 256 MiByte VRAM
You can download the
Heaven Benchmark from the official website or, as a logged in PCGH user, at the end of the page. In our gallery we present several screenshots and below we also have two videos.
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