3D Graphics Performance Measurement for Automotive Applications

Futuremark, creators of the industry standard benchmarking software for graphics performance for OpenGL ES and DirectX APIs, has started a program for automotive applications. We urge all interested companies in the automotive industry to participate.

The outcome of the project will be widely tested and validated benchmark testing software, licensed as a source code distribution. The benchmark is designed to be used for the performance evaluation of graphics cores, chips, SoCs, embedded systems and devices.

We are now inviting qualified companies to pre-license the product. Pre-licensing will give privileged access to specifications and early builds. You also will be able to help provide your valued technical opinion to the implementation of the benchmark by giving feedback throughout the development.

Exclusive Benefits with Pre-Licensing

•  Source code access
•  Reduced license fees
•  Ability to provide comment on the benchmark design
•  Early access to specifications and development versions of the benchmark

No Strings Attached

Aside from the license fee, you do not have any other obligations ¨C but you do have a right to contribute to the project. We encourage you to give feedback and share with us your vision on what the automotive benchmark should be.

Act Now

Enrolling to the project is easy:

1. Email immediately to petri.talala@futuremark.com and tell you want to participate
2. Review the project description and agreement
3. Send in purchase order for the appropriate amount

About Futuremark

Futuremark's handheld benchmarks are already the choice of leading technology companies, including AMD, ARM, Broadcom, DMP, Freescale, Imagination Technologies, Intel, Marvell, NVIDIA, Qualcomm, Renesas, Samsung Electronics, and Texas Instruments. Most handset manufacturers also use Futuremark's products. Operators, seeing that applications performance is a key decision criterion for hundreds of millions of customers are also increasingly using benchmarks in their handset selection processes.

Automotive Benchmark Overview

Automotive benchmark is designed as an extensive and complete benchmark suite to reliably gauge the performance of an automotive graphics and display solution running applications that utilize OpenGL ES 1.x and 2.0 APIs.

Potential main workload categories and their relation to automobile applications are:

Automotive application	Benchmark workload categories
Dashboard & Meters	Needle (graphics object) rendering
Info system interface	User interface
Location based services	Navigation/mapping
All graphics related applications	Fillrate, polygon throughput

In addition to the above, we are planning to implement a suite of feature and other tests.

Please note that Futuremark may choose to implement only part of the described tests. Selection is made based on the amount of pre-licensees (total funding) and their priorities.

Tentative Schedule

Project begins	June 16th
Pre-licensing	Until July 31th
Specification ready, final schedule confirmed	August 18th
Alpha: First versions of main tests	September 04th
Beta: All tests	September 25th
Release Candidate: Final tests	October 10th
Gold release to licensees	TBD

Pricing

Existing Futuremark Mobile & Embedded BDP member companies: €20,000 onetime fee.

Non-BDP member companies: €30,000 first-year fee, €12,500 forth-coming years. Fee includes future benchmark updates, support and maintenance.

Contact Information

Please send all inquiries to:

Petri Talala
Vice President, Mobile & Embedded

Futuremark Corporation
Kappelitie 6 B
02200 Espoo
Finland

Tel: +358-20-759-8266
petri.talala@futuremark.com

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