3DMark developers show video cards performance growth since 2016

The 3DMark Steel Nomad benchmark was released, which is positioned as the successor to 3DMark Time Spy. On this occasion, UL Solutions shared some interesting statistics. They collected all 48 million 3DMark Time Spy results over the past 8 years to show the increase in average graphics card performance over that period.

The resulting graph showed significant jumps in average 3DMark Time Spy results at times when AMD and NVIDIA released new generations of video cards. The greatest increase in productivity was observed in 2020 and 2022. Nvidia Ampere and AMD RDNA 2 3D accelerators hit the market in 2020, followed by NVIDIA Ada Lovelace and AMD RDNA 3 in 2022. In just eight years, benchmark averages have grown by about 2.8 times.

This growth shows how much the performance of graphics cards has improved and emphasizes the importance of the releases of new architectures from the leading GPU manufacturers.

Video card tests of 2016 at hi-tech.ua:

1. 1. Review of HIS R9 380X IceQ X² Turbo 4GB video card based on AMD Radeon R9 380X
   2. NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 and others. Test of video cards of medium and high levels
   3. Review of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 based video cards from Inno3D, MSI and Zotac. Chic middle class