July 24, 2022

GravityMark v1.67 beta

• Visual artifacts on AMD GPUs in CS and RT modes have been fixed.

July 22, 2022

GravityMark v1.66 beta

• LOD Bias option for the high polygonal mode.
• Compute shader rasterization mode.
• Mesh shader rendering mode.
• OpenXR support for Windows.

April 8, 2022

GravityMark v1.53

• Stabilization and bug fix update.

March 21, 2022

GravityMark v1.52 for macOS and iOS

• Up to 40% better performance on Metal API.

March 12, 2022

GravityMark v1.51

• Minor performance degradation of the previous version has been fixed.
• 4K resolution support for Android and iOS.
• Better NVLink performance.

Notes:

Color artifacts with AMD GPUs and RT.

February 25, 2022

GravityMark v1.5

• Mobile and desktop binaries are updated to v1.5.
• A crash at Vulkan RT mode on AMD has been fixed.
• Depth buffer artifacts at Vulkan on Nvidia GPUs have been fixed.
• Multi-GPU mode is compatible with NVLink and provides a significant performance boost.

Notes:

Color artifacts with AMD GPUs and RT.

January 15, 2022

GravityMark v1.44 with ray tracing support

• Ray-traced asteroids and shadows.
• The new asteroids limit is 4,000,000.
• Windows, Linux, and macOS platforms.
• Multi-GPU ray tracing on Windows and Linux.

Notes:

Color artifacts with AMD GPUs and RT.

AMD Vulkan RT is crashing on Windows.

macOS 12 is required for RT version.

November 21, 2021

GravityMark GPU hierarchy page

• GravityMark GPU Hierarchy page with the best GPU results is available.

November 20, 2021

Windows v1.31 and Linux v1.32 updates

• New versions allow using all resolutions at fullscreen mode.

November 14, 2021

GravityMark v1.31 for iOS and Android

• GravityMark for iOS is available in the App Store (A14+ and M1+).
• GravityMark for Android is available as apk (Adreno 650+ with 530+ driver is required).

November 4, 2021

GravityMark v1.31 for macOS

• >1.5x performance boost on macOS Monterey.
• Better macOS device name detection.

July 12, 2021

GravityMark v1.31 for Linux

• This is a minor bug-fix update for Linux, allowing to submit score if the GPU can’t be detected (ARM64 platform).

July 9, 2021

GravityMark v1.3

• Leaderboard system.
• Vulkan Multi-GPU support.

June 26, 2021

GravityMark v1.2 is here

• Multi-GPU support under Direct3D12 API (we are working on bringing that feature for Vulkan).
• GPU thermal throttling detection for Nvidia.
• Real-time score evaluation during benchmarking.
• AVX is no longer required for x64 architecture.

June 18, 2021

GravityMark v1.1 is released

• Better command-line automation: per-frame statistics, automatic exit with optional screenshot, benchmark loop count.
• Screenshots are saved into the Documents directory instead of the home directory.
• LD_LIBRARY_PATH modification is not required for Linux.