“With support for DirectX 9.0c and up to 2 million polygons on screen, 3DMark05 raised the bar for gaming benchmarks. Game tests include Return to Proxycon, Firefly Forest and Canyon Flight.”
https://benchmarks.ul.com/legacy-benchmarks
3DMark05 has always been a very CPU bound benchmark. Even at 4K going from an RTX 2080 to an RTX 3090 makes no difference with a 3700X CPU. This is quite interesting when compared to 3DMark03 where you see a significant jump in performance. The 5600X is a different story though – It frees up the GPU at both default settings as well at 4K resolution.
At 8K though, the RTX 3090 system performs 87% better with the RTX 2080 system. I haven’t had the chance to run 3D Mark 05 at 8K resolution with the 5600X CPU. I will update this article once I do that.
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