3D Mark announces Steel Nomad benchmark, replaces Timespy

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After several years, 3D Mark says Timespy's reign at the top is coming to a close

It will be replaced with a new benchmark called Steel Nomad, but it is not yet available for download

3DMark Steel Nomad benchmark announced, a new cross-platform sucesssor to TimeSpy - VideoCardz.com

3DMark Steel Nomad is a DirectX12, Metal and Vulkan benchmark Today, UL introduce a new cross-platform benchmark called Steel Nomad Recently, we shared news about a 3D marking its 25th anniversary. The well-known benchmark suite is set to undergo an update, with the 3DMark development team...

videocardz.com

 

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It will probably be a mixed benchmark, stressing multiple parts of the system just like Timespy also worked as a CPU and memory test, would not be surprised if it has some Ray tracing but I don't expect it to be fully Ray traced like port Royal.

Timespy was meant as an overall benchmark to see how well your PC as a whole could handle new and future games and this will probably do the same

 

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UL Solutions Makes 3DMark Steel Nomad Free to All 3DMark Users

UL Solutions announced that it is making the Steel Nomad benchmark free to all 3DMark users. The benchmark is expected to release in the first quarter of 2024, for Windows and Windows on Arm PCs; through Steam, Epic Games Store, or directly from UL. The company will release Steel Nomad and Steel...

www.techpowerup.com

3DMark Steel Nomad will be free. Nice!

3DMark Steel Nomad cross-platform benchmark to launch Q1 2024 as a free update to all 3DMark users - VideoCardz.com

3DMark Steel Nomad free for all 3DMark users. Last month, we introduced you to 3DMark Steel Nomad, our cross-platform successor to Time Spy and Time Spy Extreme as our recommended non-raytracing benchmark. We’re happy to announce that Steel Nomad will be a free update for all 3DMark users...

videocardz.com

Wonder if there will be an xtreme version for paid users like timespy and firestrike

 

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There is an update in the steam group. Looks to be a slight delay but maybe April.

3DMark Steel Nomad? :: 3DMark General Discussions

When is it coming? Said to be coming in the first quarter of 2024. 21 days left in the first quarter. Soon? :)

steamcommunity.com

They can take their time to tweak it I don't mind. As they correctly point out it's not a good look to launch a benchmark that requires updates because the scores are not accurate across different hardware configurations as such updates would invalidate past results and require resets of the ladders; for this type of benchmark it needs to be accurate and work on day one, so they can take their time no rush

 

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3DMark Steel Nomad im Test mit 40 Grafikkarten: Neuer Benchmark mit einigen Überraschungen

Mit dem 3DMark Steel Nomad gibt einen neuen Rasterizing-Benchmark mit Cross-Plattform-Kompatibilität. PCGH testet 35 Grafikkarten seit 2014.

www.pcgameshardware.de

Seems like it favours nvidia a good bit

True performance of the 4090, unrestrained

Also, would suggest looking at the default benchmark performance; that website has done the default and the light mode test, the light mode numbers look a bit weird probably due to cpu bottlenecks or some other issue but the default mode numbers look as you'd expect with the 4090 in the lead, followed by the 7900xtx, followed by the 4080 super

For example, the scores on the default test:

4090: 11287
7900xtx: 7307
4080 super: 7243

 

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It's free

 

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So who's creating and running the 3DMark Steel Nomad benchmark thread?

Kaapstad if Jensen announces SLI Titans are back


LtMatt if the benchmark favours AMD

 

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Highest score on the hall of fame so far is a 11869

 

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You guys may want to make a new thread to store the scores; I don't have the time or will to create a leaderboard for this thread

 

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My best score

This is with +1000mhz on the memory and +150mhz on the core. Adding a further 50mhz on the core and 500mhz memory did nothing, I believe the GPU is power limited.

Unlike Timespy, this benchmark never crashes for me even if I set crazy clocks, they just don't do anything, the clocks stop going up because its power limited

 

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If you can't validate your score save it and try again later. It won't validate unless systeminfo has worked correctly.



only validated scores

1. momo56, 4090, core 3135, Mem 1563, Score 10963, link
2. RSR, 4090, core 3090, Mem 1544, Score 10508, link
3. nlel1975, 7900 XTX, Core 2320, Mem 2500, Score 6485, Link
4. Ross Thomson, 7900 GRE, Core 2535, Mem 2616, score 5343, link
5. Clarence Boddicker, 7800 XT, core 2734, Mem 2624, Score 4532, link
6. Humbug, 7800 XT, core 2747, Mem 2538, Score 4472, Link

None of the runs I did worked, everytime I click on compare online I get error code "2"

 

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I wouldn't go that far But yes it's a bit limited!

Most GPU benchmarks don't look particularly great; I suppose its because your benchmark doesn't need to look good to be demanding and being demanding for modern hardware is the goal of the benchmark.

The last time I was impressed by the visuals of a benchmark was when Heaven was released in 2009