Heaven Benchmark is benchmarking software based on the UNIGINE Engine. The benchmark was developed and published by

UNIGINE Company UNIGINE Company is a multinational software development company headquartered in Clemency, Luxembourg. It is known for developing the Unigine, UNIGINE Engine proprietary cross-platform middleware and advanced GPU benchmarks (Heaven Benchmark, H ...

in 2009. The main purpose of software is performance and stability testing for

GPUs A graphics processing unit (GPU) is a specialized electronic circuit designed for digital image processing and to accelerate computer graphics, being present either as a discrete video card or embedded on motherboards, mobile phones, personal ...

. Users can choose a workload preset, Basic or Extreme, or set the parameters by custom. The benchmark 3D scene is a steampunk-style city on flying islands in the middle of the clouds. The scene is GPU-intensive because of

tessellation A tessellation or tiling is the covering of a surface, often a plane, using one or more geometric shapes, called ''tiles'', with no overlaps and no gaps. In mathematics, tessellation can be generalized to higher dimensions and a variety ...

used for all the surfaces, dynamic sky with volumetric clouds and day-night cycle, real-time

global illumination Global illumination (GI), or indirect illumination, is a group of algorithms used in 3D computer graphics that are meant to add more realistic lighting Lighting or illumination is the deliberate use of light to achieve practical or aest ...

, and screen-space

ambient occlusion In 3D computer graphics, modeling, and animation, ambient occlusion is a shading and rendering technique used to calculate how exposed each point in a scene is to ambient lighting. For example, the interior of a tube is typically more occlude ...

. Heaven and other benchmarks by

are often used by hardware reviewers to compare performance of GPUs and by overclockers for online and offline competitions in GPU overclocking. Running Heaven (or another benchmark by

) produces a performance score: the higher the numbers, the better the performance. Heaven Benchmark was shipped with Zotac GPUs. Included in Phoronix Test Suite. Heaven Benchmark is claimed to be the first

DirectX Microsoft DirectX is a collection of application programming interfaces (APIs) for handling tasks related to multimedia, especially game programming and video, on Microsoft platforms. Originally, the names of these APIs all began with "Direct" ...

11 benchmark. It was officially introduced at the Windows 7 presentation on October 22, 2009.

Technological features

* Visuals powered by UNIGINE 1 Engine * Support for

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Windows 7 Windows 7 is a major release of the Windows NT operating system developed by Microsoft. It was Software release life cycle#Release to manufacturing (RTM), released to manufacturing on July 22, 2009, and became generally available on October 22, ...

Windows 8 Windows 8 is a major release of the Windows NT operating system developed by Microsoft. It was Software release life cycle#Release to manufacturing (RTM), released to manufacturing on August 1, 2012, made available for download via Microsoft ...

Linux Linux ( ) is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an kernel (operating system), operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991, by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically package manager, pac ...

macOS macOS, previously OS X and originally Mac OS X, is a Unix, Unix-based operating system developed and marketed by Apple Inc., Apple since 2001. It is the current operating system for Apple's Mac (computer), Mac computers. With ...

* Support for

DirectX 9 Microsoft DirectX is a collection of application programming interfaces (APIs) for handling tasks related to multimedia, especially game programming and video, on Microsoft platforms. Originally, the names of these APIs all began with "Direct" ...

DirectX 11 Microsoft DirectX is a collection of application programming interfaces (APIs) for handling tasks related to multimedia, especially game programming and video, on Microsoft platforms. Originally, the names of these APIs all began with "Direct" ...

and OpenGL 4.0 *Support for

NVIDIA SLI Scalable Link Interface (SLI) is the brand name for a now discontinued multi-GPU technology developed by Nvidia (The technology was invented and developed by 3dfx and later purchased by Nvidia during the acquisition of 3dfx) for linking two or mo ...

and

AMD CrossFire AMD CrossFire (also known as CrossFireX) is a brand name for the multi-Graphics processing unit, GPU technology by Advanced Micro Devices, AMD, originally developed by ATI Technologies. The technology allows up to four GPUs to be used in a sing ...

* GPU temperature and clock monitoring * Adaptive hardware tessellation * Dynamic sky with volumetric clouds and tweakable day-night cycle * Real-time global illumination and screen-space ambient occlusion * Support for stereo 3D and multi-monitor configurations * Cinematic and interactive fly/walk-through camera modes

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External links

Official website
Benchmarks (computing)

Technological features

See also

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