The generalized performance for the DirectX 9.0b-9.0c generation of video cards was presented in the 3DMark 2005 synthetic test and the Half-Life 2 game application, The Chronicles Of Riddick.
Compared to 3DMark 03, the size of the newly-minted 3DMark 05 has grown one and a half times and now occupies 280MB in the archive and 633MB in the expanded state. The system requirements have also changed. Now it requires a processor of at least 2 GHz, at least 512 MB of RAM, and a graphics accelerator with support for pixel and vertex shaders of the second version with at least 128 MB of memory.
Half-Life was created by Valve in 1998. Fantastic adventures of a simple laboratory assistant Gordon Freeman (Gordon Freeman) in the top-secret research institute Black Mesa and on the otherworldly planet Xen (Xen) turned the genre of first-person shooters
The game takes place in a world familiar to fans of sci-fi action movies based on two Hollywood blockbusters. The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape From Butcher Bay is the prequel to the films Pitch Black and The Chronicles of Riddick from Universal Pictures.