Steel Nomad is also getting a lite version in the spirit of true platform independence.
At the end of last year, we wrote about UL Benchmark preparing a successor to its previously successful Time Spy test, which has now arrived under the name Steel Nomad.
The peculiarity of the new 3DMark test unit is that it is almost platform independent, so it runs on Windows, macOS, iOS, Android and Linux with optimal conditions in the given environment, i.e. on DirectX12, Metal and Vulkan APIs. For now, of course, only a combination of Windows and DirectX 12 is available.
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By the way, Steel Nomad is the most demanding test in the history of 3DMark that does not support hardware-accelerated ray tracing, so a Light version was made for it as well. The latter will appear on both iOS and Android, and will be a real global testbed, where many different devices will be comparable, since the workflow is the same even with different operating systems and APIs.
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In addition to the regular test option, Steel Nomad offers the so-called Explorer mode, with which you can walk around the test as you like, configure the graphics level individually and in detail. In this mode, you can also search for Easter eggs related to 3DMark's 25th anniversary. The Windows version of 3DMark Steel Nomad is available for free to users who own 3DMark.
By the way, UL Benchmark also announced that the names related to 3DMark will change, so the basic version of 3DMark will now be called 3DMark Demo, the advanced version of 3DMark will simply be 3DMark, while the new name of 3DMark Professional Edition will be 3DMark for 3DMark. project.
