3DMark Steel Nomad Non-Raytracing Benchmark Expected to Release This Month

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3DMark Steel Nomad, UL's latest non-raytracing benchmark and cross-platform successor to the popular Time Spy and Time Spy Extreme benchmarks, is expected to release this month, according to a post that a developer shared on 3DMark's discussion forum on Steam last week.

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Just noticed this one hitting the 3DMark launcher in Steam, now to try it out!
 
After some rejigging, here's what I wound up with:

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I think one has to do a wipe of graphics settings (Nvidia Control Panel or the new App) to get rid of the maroon exclamation triangle; more than I'm willing to deal with just for a test use, but the benchmark runs well enough.

Looks like the benchmark runs in 4k regardless of the monitor used (mine being 3840x1600), so on widescreens it'll be letterboxed with black bars on the sides:

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With my main rig I scored 9448 then I went into task manager and turned off some things and ran it again and it scored in the low 9,000's...:ROFLMAO:
 
It's generally bound by GPU performance, so twice as much sounds about right
 
Seems like an afterthought. 1 test, 60 seconds. I hope they are working on something big in the background otherwise I'd not be surprised if they were closed down soon.
 
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