3DMark has a new ray tracing benchmarking application that is designed for Android devices but can be run on Windows PCs as well.
UL Solutions, the creators behind 3DMark, have launched a new 3DMark ray tracing benchmark called Solar Bay that is designed to stress test and benchmark GPUs. This new benchmark is different from 3DMark’s other ray tracing benchmarks, like Port Royal and Speed Way in that it supports both Android and Windows PCs. As a result, this makes Solar Bay the first 3DMark ray tracing capable benchmark that is capable of running on mobile hardware and allows users to directly compare benchmark results between mobile and PC platforms.
Solar Bay has two different methods to test device hardware, the first is a “quick-to-run” benchmark that measures the peak performance of a device. This first method is designed to mimic the behavior of mobile games which tend to hit devices with short bursts of activity. The second is a traditional stress test that runs the application over an extended period of time to measure the performance of a device once the device’s cooling solution has been heat soaked.
