AquaMark is a new DirectX 9 compatible benchmark from massive Development. It allows PC users to easily benchmark their current and next-generation PCs by measuring and comparing the performance of the systems. AquaMark provides a reliable benchmark which helps users to configure their systems for the best gaming performance.
The benchmark executes a complete state-of-the-art game engine and generates 3D scenes designed to make the same demands on hardware as a modern game.
This program utilizes recent hardware features of the new DirectX 9 API, such as PixelShader 2.0, while staying fully backward compatible to DirectX 8 and 7 graphics hardware.
The software offers a outstanding variety of standardized and used defineable evaluation schemes. Intuitive visual output formats help to easily compare results to each other.
AquaMark allows benchmarking in a real-world scenario, with an engine and art assets showing the complexity of current state-of-the-art games.
This is AquaMark 3 - unfortionately the programmers, Massive development, do not exsist anymore. That does not mean you can't use this outstanding tool though ! A new DirectX 9 compatible benchmark from massive Development. The latest graphics cards on the market are almost all DirectX9 compatible these days, and we can also see an increasing number of games utilizing the new DX9 features. To be able to see how well a graphics card is performing in this new challenging DirectX 9 environment, AquaMark was developed.
AquaMark 3, however, is not solely a DirectX9 benchmark; if you are working with a DirectX 8 or 7 compatible graphics card, you will still be able to use it just with a lot of graphical features missing. Make no mistake, AquaMark3 is a DirectX 9 benchmark. But since it's based on a real game engine it has fallbacks to DirectX 8 and even DirectX 7.
This version supports a wide set of features like the basic AquaMark3 TRISCORE test and free online access to ARC, the on-line AquaMark Result Comparator.
Definitely worth the 63MB download if you have a modern graphics card!

Requirements:
Minimum Requirements
- System: Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows 2000, Windows XP, DirectX 9
- Graphics card: DirectX 7-compatible 32 MB graphics card with DX9 drivers
- Sound card: DirectX 8-compatible sound card
- Processor: Pentium/Athlon 750
- Memory: 128 MB (256 MB for Win 2000/XP)
Recommended
- System: Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows 2000, Windows XP, DirectX 9
- Graphics card: DirectX 9-compatible 64 MB graphics card
- Sound card: DirectX 8-compatible sound card
- Processor: 1 GHz Pentium/Athlon
- Memory: 256 MB

The license of this software is Freeware, you can free download and free use this diagnostic software.