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NVIDIA Joins Futuremarks Benchmark Development Program

Saratoga, California USA August 12, 2003 Futuremark Corporation, the leading provider of PC performance analysis software and services, today announced that NVIDIA Corporation has re-joined its worldwide benchmark development program. Futuremarks flagship product, 3DMark03, sets the standard for easily and objectively measuring and comparing PCs 3D graphics performance and is part of Futuremarks suite of benchmark solutions originally launched in 1998.

Tero Sarkkinen, Executive Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Futuremark Corporation, said: "We are very excited about NVIDIA joining the program. Their membership further validates our benchmark development model and adds value to the whole program.

Futuremarks Benchmark Development Program provides a transparent and convenient platform for companies to collaborate and provide vital input to the continuous development of high quality benchmarks. Futuremark delivers benchmark specifications and milestones to program members, who in turn provide feedback to the development process. Companies that want to actively participate in designing the standards of objective performance measurement are welcomed to apply to the program.

Futuremarks Benchmark Development ProgramMembers are: AMD, ATI, Beyond3D, CNET, Creative Technologies, Dell, ExtremeTech, Gateway, Imagination Technologies/PowerVR, Intel, InnoVISION Multimedia, Microsoft, NVIDIA, S3Graphics, Transmeta, and XGI Technology. For more information, please visit

About Futuremark Corporation

Futuremark Corporation, formerly known as MadOnion.com, is the leading provider of computer performance analysis software and services. Futuremark is known around the world for its benchmark products, including the 3DMark Series and PCMark2002 (with more than 30 million copies distributed worldwide) and value-added services powered by a database of over 7 million real life benchmarking results. Futuremark has offices in Saratoga, California and Helsinki, Finland. For more information, please visit

2003 Futuremark Corporation. 3DMark and PCMark trademarks and logos, Futuremark character names and distinctive likenesses, are the exclusive property of Futuremark Corporation. DirectX is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation. All other trademarks are property of their respective companies.

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Futuremark Announces the Futuremark Games StudioWith its first game already in development, Futuremark Games Studio was created to produce original world class games.

Espoo, Finland - January 29th, 2008 - Futuremark (www.futuremark.com), is proud to announce the formation of a group named the Futuremark Games Studio. For the past 10 years, Futuremark has been pushing the boundaries of PC 3D graphics performance with its 3DMark series, which has become by far the world's most popular benchmarking software. The 3DMark series combines stunning 3D art with world class engines from Direct3D 6 up to Direct3D 10. "Futuremark Games Studio is committed to developing original IP games with the highest quality game play combined with our established track record of creating blow-your-socks-off visuals", said Tero Sarkkinen, CEO of Futuremark Corporation. "For years, our fans have been asking us when will we start making games. Very soon they are going to get it - and then some!"

Over the past 10 years Futuremark's team of brilliant artists and engineers has created remarkably beautiful demos and benchmarks for a variety of clients to show off the abilities of their platforms. Although the new studio will demonstrate its ability to seamlessly integrate the latest technologies into its engines, its mission is to build world class games that bring new and entertaining game play to gamers. This includes games and their engines that deliver stellar performance even on modest platforms right up to the most enthusiastic levels of performance hardware.

For more information about Futuremark Games Studio, please contact Tero Sarkkinen in Finland or Oliver Baltuch in California. Futuremark Games Studio personnel will also be attending GDC 2008 in San Francisco where they can be found at the Nordic Games Studios Pavilion.

Futuremark Corporation is the leading provider of performance analysis software and services for PCs, smartphones and in the future, games. Futuremark is known around the world for its benchmark products, including the 3DMark and PCMark Series, SPMark and VGMark (with more than 35 million copies distributed worldwide) and value-added services powered by a database of almost 20 million real life benchmarking results. Futuremark maintains offices in Saratoga, California and Helsinki, Finland. For more information, please visit www.futuremark.com

2008 Futuremark Corporation. 3DMark, PCMark, SPMark, VGMark and YouGamers trademarks and logos, Futuremark character names and distinctive likenesses, are the exclusive property of Futuremark Corporation.

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Futuremark Begins Development of New Vector Graphics Benchmark

VGMark07 to Enable Measurement of OpenVG API performance on Handheld Devices

Active Recruitment of Key Industry Partners Underway

Saratoga, CA and 3GSM World Congress, Barcelona, Spain - February 15th, 2006 - Futuremark Corporation, creators of world's most widely used benchmarks for handhelds and PCs, announced they have established an open development program to define and create VGMark07, the OpenVG Benchmark. This new benchmark will provide handheld industry companies developing OpenVG API enabled hardware with objective and accurate cross platform comparisons of OpenVG performance.

With over eight years experience invested in 2D, 3D and system benchmarking applications, Futuremark is designing VGMark07 as a complete benchmark suite. To reliably gauge the performance of handheld devices running applications that utilize OpenVG API, workloads will be based on popular consumer applications that place a high demand on system performance. The full suite of tests is subject to change, pending industry and partner feedback during the development process, but will replicate OpenVG API dependant tasks such as user interface, text rendering, vector animation and mapping/navigation.

The methodology behind VGMark07 reflects Futuremark's practice of building benchmark workloads based on real world applications to produce credible and relevant performance measurements. VGMark07 will allow handheld device manufacturers to select IP based on actual performance comparisons rather than relying on unproven claims or theoretical specifications.

"As substantial numbers of handheld manufacturers adopt the OpenVG API, we see a solid opportunity to provide reliable, well designed performance tools for an important segment of the handheld industry. We're pleased to again be the first benchmark developer to recognize the significance of this technology" said Tero Sarkkinen, Executive Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Futuremark. "There's a real demand for transparency in vector graphics performance, and by leveraging our partnerships, experience and skills to develop a test suite of real world workloads, we'll enable the industry to build better performing smartphones and other handheld devices."

OpenVG, accelerating vector graphics on handheld devices

OpenVG(TM) is a royalty-free, cross-platform API developed by the Khronos Group, a consortium of over 100 of industry's leading companies. OpenVG provides a standardized low-level hardware acceleration interface for vector graphics libraries such as Flash and SVG. OpenVG is targeted primarily at handheld devices that require acceleration of high-quality vector graphics for compelling user interfaces and text on small screen. These and many other applications require hardware acceleration to provide fluidly interactive performance at very low power levels.

"OpenVG provides many benefits to the handheld industry, as increasing numbers of consumer applications relying on vector graphics such as Flash and SVG emerge" said Koichi Mori, Chairman of Khronos' OpenVG Working Group. "VGMark07 fulfils a critical role in the industry by enabling trusted objective performance measurements and comparisons on devices and technologies across board. Futuremark endorses our vision with their latest benchmark, while providing the industry with the tools they need to select and build the best performing hardware for future handheld device users."

Inviting industry participation

Futuremark is currently inviting qualified handheld industry companies to pre-license the VGMark07. In addition to lowered licensing fees, pre-licensing provides exclusive access to the benchmark specifications and early builds including alpha and beta releases. Only pre-licensee companies will be able to influence specification and implementation of the benchmark with their feedback throughout the development of VGMark07. Pre-licensing runs through the end of February, 2006.

About Futuremark Corporation

Futuremark Corporation is the leading provider of performance analysis software and services for PCs and smartphones. Futuremark is known around the world for its benchmark products, including the 3DMark and PCMark Series and SPMark (with more than 30 million copies distributed worldwide) and value-added services powered by a database of over 13 million real life benchmarking results from over 3 million registered users. Futuremark maintains offices in Saratoga, California and Helsinki, Finland. For more information, please visit

2006 Futuremark Corporation. 3DMark, PCMark and SPMark trademarks and logos, Futuremark character names and distinctive likenesses, are the exclusive property of Futuremark Corporation.OpenVG is a registered trademark of Khronos Group Inc. in the Untied States and/or other countries worldwide. All other trademarks are property of their respective companies.

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