

We’ll be starting with the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 4GB graphics card that runs $149 and end with the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti 11GB that is priced at $1,199. Today we are armed with a Redshift 3.0 license and will be using the built-in benchmark scene to test nearly all of the current GeForce GTX and RTX offerings from NVIDIA. NVIDIA has also released a slew of new GeForce RTX 2000 series and GeForce 1600 series cards since we last gave Redshift 2.6 a try. Redshift 3.0 is a major update as it supports support for hardware-accelerated ray tracing via NVIDIAs new RTX GPU architecture. Since that article was published, Redshift Rendering Technologies was acquired by Maxon in 2019 and they have rolled out Redshift 3.0. The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2000 series graphics cards had just launched and we wanted to look at GPU performance in Redshift 2.6.+


A scene with more objects, more textures and more DirectX features implemented may well look more impressive, but will more than likely result in a reduction in frame rate With DirectX 10, 11 and 12 tests being available if you are using a compatible video card and required version of Windows.Īpart from individual graphics card speeds and abilities, the test illustrates a single video card's drop in performance as the rendered scene becomes more complex. As such, PerformanceTest requires DirectX version 9 or above. It renders a number of scenes to the screen in windowed or full screen mode. The Advanced 3D Graphics Test has been designed to benchmark the how well your video card performs when using the most common features of DirectX.

DirectX provides support for two-dimensional (2-D) and three-dimensional (3-D) graphics, sound effects, music, input devices, and networked applications such as multiplayer games. Microsoft provides a set of Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) called DirectX, which allow developers to create games and other high-performance multimedia applications. 3D Graphics technology has come on in leaps and bounds over the last few years and these tests can help measure how fast 3D images can be created and displayed. Included in PerformanceTest is the Advanced 3D graphics test which allows users to change the tailor the settings of the 3D tests to create one to suit their testing needs.
