3DMark Vantage

3DMark Vantage is a PC benchmark suite designed to test the DirectX10 performance of your graphics card. It is the latest addition to the 3DMark series. As it is a DX10-only benchmark, it only runs on Windows Vista and Windows 7. 3DMark Vantage is composed of four full-bore benchmarking tests (2 CPU tests and 2 GPU tests) and 6 feature tests. This test makes good use of multi-core CPUs and can even use Nvidia’s PhysX technology on its GeForce lineup of video cards.

The HD 4650 is severely outclassed by the GT 240 GDDR3 in this synthetic benchmark. The GT 240 GDDR3 ends up pretty close to the 9600 GT. Let’s move on and see if this trend continues in our real world tests.