3DMark - Solar Bay Ray Tracing test available now

[Remij]

3DMark Solar Bay on Steam

Cross-platform Vulkan raytracing gaming benchmark for Windows and Android devices.

store.steampowered.com

3DMark Solar Bay tests how Windows and Android devices perform when gaming with ray tracing. Results can be compared between platforms. The Solar Bay stress test shows how performance changes over extended gaming sessions.

Real-time ray tracing brings new levels of realism to in-game graphics. Solar Bay uses Vulkan 1.1 ray tracing to generate realistic real-time reflections on devices running Android or Windows.

Solar Bay’s ray traced workload increases over three stages, with each section increasing linearly by 100%. On PC, Solar Bay complements our heavier ray tracing benchmarks Port Royal and Speed Way. With it’s three ray tracing benchmarks and the Raytracing feature test, 3DMark covers a wide range of ray tracing workloads, making it an excellent way to measure how your PC’s ray tracing performance scales.

Not as technically demanding as their other RT benchmarks, since this just focuses on mirror reflections and nothing else... but I do have to say that I love the idea of this benchmark so much more than their other RT tests. Love seeing all the different mirror reflections happening and it's very clear that we've come a long way in the clarity and detail of the reflections from back in the early RTX days.

 

[Diamond.G]

3DMark Solar Bay on Steam

Cross-platform Vulkan raytracing gaming benchmark for Windows and Android devices.

store.steampowered.com

Not as technically demanding as their other RT benchmarks, since this just focuses on mirror reflections and nothing else... but I do have to say that I love the idea of this benchmark so much more than their other RT tests. Love seeing all the different mirror reflections happening and it's very clear that we've come a long way in the clarity and detail of the reflections from back in the early RTX days.

Is it due to being cross platform (assuming this will run on iOS when they announce hardware RT (crosses fingers for next month)? There are what 2 Android phones this can run on right now?

 

[dorf]

There are what 2 Android phones this can run on right now?

All phones based on Snapdragon 8 gen 2, Dimensity 9200 or Exynos 2200 can run it afaik. Maybe some other chipset too, dunno.

Tested: Snapdragon-powered Android phones just got a lot faster at ray tracing

A new round of ray tracing benchmarks with 3DMark's Solar Bay suggests that Snapdragon phones have become much better at ray tracing.

www.androidauthority.com

 

[Diamond.G]

Yeah there are a lot of phones that can run it, though it is interesting that the Dimensity 9200 is faster than the other two. Wonder if that is a clock speed advantage rearing its head. Or if it is a driver optimization issue.

 

[Remij]

Is it due to being cross platform (assuming this will run on iOS when they announce hardware RT (crosses fingers for next month)? There are what 2 Android phones this can run on right now?

I dunno.. but it certainly doesn't work on my Galaxy S22 Ultra

 

[Lurkmass]

I dunno.. but it certainly doesn't work on my Galaxy S22 Ultra

You have the European SKU or the other SKU ? The app is only going to work on the European SKU ...

 

[Remij]

You have the European SKU or the other SKU ? The app is only going to work on the European SKU ...

Yea, I guess it's the Snapdragon variant lol.

 

[Lurkmass]

Yea, I guess it's the Snapdragon variant lol.

Need the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 or at least an Adreno 740 GPU for Qualcomm chipsets to run the app ...