{"id":173886,"date":"2025-06-16T20:02:04","date_gmt":"2025-06-17T00:02:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/midatlanticconsulting.com\/blog\/?p=173886"},"modified":"2025-06-16T20:02:04","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T00:02:04","slug":"popular-3dmark-cross-platform-benchmark-tool-now-available-for-macos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/midatlanticconsulting.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/popular-3dmark-cross-platform-benchmark-tool-now-available-for-macos\/","title":{"rendered":"Popular 3DMark cross-platform benchmark tool now available for macOS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It was only a few days ago that we broke the news about Valve making available a new Steam Client Beta with native <a href=\"https:\/\/www.idownloadblog.com\/tag\/apple-silicon\">Apple Silicon<\/a> support for testing, a move that breaks the multi-year streak of using a clunky web UI for its macOS app, and today, we&#8217;re excited to share that a very popular benchmark tool available from Steam is now compatible with macOS.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-1042016\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>3Dmark, which crafted a name for itself over the years as a reliable and popular benchmark tool for Windows machines, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.3dmark.com\/\">became available for macOS on Monday<\/a>. The application can be had from various download sources, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.idownloadblog.com\/tag\/steam\">Steam<\/a>, Epic Games, and UL Solutions.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve already downloaded the 3Dmark application on our Mac, and what we&#8217;ve found is that there are four different benchmark tests available for users to try, including Solar Bay, Steel Nomad, Steel Nomad Lite, and Wild Life Extreme.<\/p>\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1042017\" src=\"https:\/\/midatlanticconsulting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/3DMark-Solar-Bay-Test.jpg\" alt=\"The 3DMark Solar Bay benchmark test.\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s worth noting that these benchmark tests can bench the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.idownloadblog.com\/tag\/gpu\">GPU<\/a> of your Mac using Apple&#8217;s own <a href=\"https:\/\/www.idownloadblog.com\/tag\/metal\">Metal<\/a> graphics API, after which the benchmark score can be used to compare to other platforms such as those running Windows, Android, or even iOS\/iPadOS.<\/p>\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1042019\" src=\"https:\/\/midatlanticconsulting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/macOS-3DMark.gif\" alt=\"3DMark benchmark test results.\" width=\"900\" height=\"738\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>If you already own the Windows version of 3Dmark as I did, then you can download the macOS version free of any additional cost. Otherwise, new customers will need to pay $34.99 to acquire it. If you&#8217;re a Mac user and you&#8217;re buying the application for the first time, then you&#8217;ll also be able to use it on any <a href=\"https:\/\/www.idownloadblog.com\/tag\/windows\">Windows<\/a> PCs that you might own or buy in the future.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re particularly excited about this launch, as it gives Mac users a way to compare the performance of their machines to other platforms in a way that was previously not possible with 3Dmark.<\/p>\n<p>Source link: https:\/\/www.idownloadblog.com\/2025\/06\/16\/3dmark-benchmark-software-now-available-for-macos\/<\/p>\n <!-- Easy AdSense Pro: WP is not in the loop.  -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was only a few days ago that we broke the news about Valve making available a new Steam Client Beta with native Apple Silicon support for testing, a move that breaks the multi-year streak of using a clunky web UI for its macOS app, and today, we&#8217;re excited to share that a very popular [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":173887,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-allnews","category-appleindustrynews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/midatlanticconsulting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/midatlanticconsulting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/midatlanticconsulting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midatlanticconsulting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midatlanticconsulting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173886"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/midatlanticconsulting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":173888,"href":"https:\/\/midatlanticconsulting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173886\/revisions\/173888"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midatlanticconsulting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/midatlanticconsulting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midatlanticconsulting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midatlanticconsulting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}