Get Ready for 3DMark 2005

Well, it was inevitable. 3DMark '05 is available, with a free version too, but that's close to 300MB.

Futuremark Corporation today announced 3DMark05, the world’s most demanding graphics application for PCs. 3DMark05 is the fifth generation of the product line, which boasts a distribution of over 50 million copies. 3DMark05 sets the standard for accurate and objective measurement of graphics performance of DirectX 9 in running next generation of 3D...

I'm hoping that nVidia and ATi won't be doing "optimizations" for this benchmark, because if so, it won't find a place in any review testing done at Zone 365.

The full press release is here, and the list of download mirrors, here.