Current version: 4.0 (2012-02-12)

Overview

Heaven Benchmark with its current version 4.0 is a GPU-intensive benchmark that hammers graphics cards to the limits. This powerful tool can be effectively used to determine the stability of a GPU under extremely stressful conditions, as well as check the cooling system's potential under maximum heat output. It provides completely unbiased results and generates true in-game rendering workloads across all platforms, such as Windows, Linux and Mac OS X.

Heaven Benchmark immerses a user into a magical steampunk world of shiny brass, wood and gears. Nested on flying islands, a tiny village with its cozy, sun-heated cobblestone streets, an elaborately crafted dirigible above the expanse of fluffy clouds, and a majestic dragon on the central square gives a true sense of adventure. An interactive experience with fly-by and walk-through modes allows for exploring all corners of this world powered by the cutting-edge UNIGINE Engine that leverages the most advanced capabilities of graphics APIs and turns this benchmark into a visual masterpiece.

Features

• 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

Editions

Heaven benchmark comes in three editions: Basic, Advanced and Pro, each aimed to meet the needs of different users.

	Basic	Advanced	Pro
Presets
Custom settings
GPU monitoring
Interactive mode
Benchmark looping
Command line automation support
Reports in CSV format
Software rendering mode
Per-frame deep analysis
Personal use
Commercial use
Technical support
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System Requirements

For hardware tessellation both a video card with DirectX 11 / OpenGL 4.0 support and MS Windows Vista / 7 / 8 or Linux are required!

Hardware:

• GPU:
  • ATI Radeon HD 4xxx and higher
  • NVIDIA GeForce 8xxx and higher
  • Intel HD 3000 and higher
• Video memory: 512 Mb
• Disk space: 1 Gb

Operating system:

• MS Windows XP / Vista / 7 / 8
• Linux (proprietary video drivers required)
• Mac OS X 10.8+ (Mountain Lion)