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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 .