The Tropics Benchmark can test your video card's abilities. It allow you to test your video cards abilities.

Tropics Benchmark Features:
1. Support of DirectX 9, DirectX 10, DirectX 10.1 and OpenGL
2. Dynamic sky with light scattering
3. Live water with a surf zone and caustics
4. Special materials for vegetation
5. HDR rendering
6. Parallel split shadow map
7. Depth of field
8. Real-time ambient occlusion
9. Up to 2M polygones per frame
10. Benchmark mode

Hardware requirements:
1. ATI Radeon X1xxx and higher or NVIDIA GeForce 6xxx and higher (recommended: NVIDIA 8800 / AMD 4800 series)
2. 256 Mb of video memory

Known drivers issues:
1. [ATI] Broken HDR with OpenGL on X1xxx series
2. [ATI] No water with OpenGL

Software requirements:
1. .NET framework 2.0 (Windows version only, optional)
2. OpenAL (included into Windows installer)
3. Latest stable video drivers

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