97 (if Final Reality counts) and 2001

The Second Reality callback part for the former, the dragon high detail + notMatrix + nature butterflies for the latter (as well as all the PS2-style texture buffer abuse in the Demo which aren't part of any tests)

leileilol wrote:

97 (if Final Reality counts) and 2001

Final Reality was really good too but was already old when I had the change to try it. 😀
3DMark2001 was great but quiet heavy imho. I liked a lot the Nature demo and its pixel shader water even if the only way to see it with my video card was to run it without pixel shaders. 😁

I use 99 for basic bench comparison for all my system then go higher or lower for more accurate results.
I enjoy to compare system comparison since most of my rigs are at most 5-6 years apart.

3DMark2001 Lobby DirectX 8 for me. I was blown away by how pillar debris and bullet shells worked in that demo, also I always wanted to see human beings in 3D demos and that one was the first I experienced that delivered that.

3DMark Time Spy

Fav scenes :
"Mother Nature" 3DMark 03
"Nature" 3DMark 01 SE
"Canyon Flight" 3DMark 05/06
"Graphics Test 2" Time Spy
"New Calico" 3DMark Vantage
"High Temple" 3DMark 11

3DMark 03 CPU test. I just love those low res airplanes.

Just kidding. My favourite scenes are both from 3DMark06: Firefly Forest and Canyon Flight. I stopped paying attention to 3DMark after Vantage, so my knowledge of 3DMark "scenery" is quite limited.

For me the best 3Dmark is 01 as a whole... I really like the performance tweaking there. And best scene is no doubt Canyon Flight in 06, sadly to this day it is still the best looking scene. Vantage, 11, FS, TS... all these are ugly. 🤣

MadOnion XL-R8R (circa 2000 I believe?). Not an official 3DMark benchmark (more of a demo really), but I believe it was made by the same group? Anyway, love the music, the opening ship scene, the GiTS reference, the Abyss alien... good stuff all around.