Unigine releases Heaven 4.0 benchmark

Unigine has released a new version of Heaven, a DirectX 11 graphics benchmark.

The new version offers a number of new features such as:

• Extreme hardware stability testing
• Accurate results due to 100% GPU-bound benchmarking
• Benchmarking presets for convenient comparison of results
• Support for DirectX 9, DirectX 11 and OpenGL 4.0
• Multi-Platform support for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X
• Comprehensive use of hardware tessellation, with adjustable settings
• Dynamic sky with volumetric clouds and tweakable day-night cycle
• Real-time global illumination and screen-space ambient occlusion
• Cinematic and interactive fly/walk-through camera modes
• Support for multi-monitor configurations
• Various stereo 3D modes
• GPU temperature and clock monitoring
• Command line automation support
• Highly customizable reports in CSV format
• Support for software rendering mode in DirectX 11 for reference purposes
• Support for English, Russian and Chinese languages

System Requirements

• ATI Radeon HD 4xxx and higher, NVIDIA GeForce 8xxx and higher, or Intel HD 3000 and higher
• Video memory: 512 Mb
• Disk space: 1 Gb
• Microsoft Windows XP / Vista / 7 / 8, Linux (proprietary video drivers required), or Mac OS X 10.8+ (Mountain Lion)

There are three versions currently available .

• Free version which can be downloaded from http://unigine.com/products/heaven/download/
• Advanced (9.59 GBP / 14.95 USD)
• Professional (317.68 GBP / 495.00 USD)