AMD NBench description
AMD N-Bench is some kind of 3D mark but made by AMD

AMD N-Bench is a hardware testing program capable of investigating CPU performance and displaying 3D graphics results.

AMD N-Bench consists of a "Demo mode" that plays back beautiful 3DCG movies and a "Benchmark mode" that measures CPU performance.

Here are some key features of "AMD NBench":

· New 3DCG engine based on Microsoft DirectX 9.0 technology.
· All 3DCG, music, and special effects are renewed.
· "Speed Bench",measure the time to complete the task.
· Corresponds to 3DNow! Professional technology and SSE2 instruction of the Intel Pentium 4.
· 4 CPU benchmark test which is not influenced by the graphic performance.
· 4 3D benchmark test which work on XGA.

Requirements:

Working Environment:
· Computer equipped with the 1GHz AMD Athlon processor or 1GHz Intel Pentium III processor or greater
· Microsoft Windows XP
· Microsoft DirectX 9.0 or later (required)
· Free 128MB RAM or more (required)
· Color Display with 1024*768 pixels (required)
· 150MB of hard disk space or more (required)
· DirectX 9.0-compatible video card with 3D accelerator function
· with 32MB VRAM or more (required)
· DirectX 9.0-compatible sound card

Recommended Environment:
· AMD Athlon XP 2800+ processor or greater
· 256MB RAM
· Microsoft DirectX 9.0a or later
· nVIDIA "GeForceFX" GPU based video card or ATI RADION 9500, with 32 MB VRAM or more Creative Technology Ltd. "Sound Blaster Live!"