3DMark05 was built using the following third party software components:

• Microsoft® DirectX® 9 3D application programming interface (www.microsoft.com/directx/). The power of multimedia in Windows, DirectX gives you the best possible experience with graphics, sound, music, and 3-D animation.
  
• Graphics adapter analysis software from Powerstrip of Entech Taiwan (www.entechtaiwan.com) - this is used to correctly determine the speeds of the graphics processing and video memory chips, plus supply additional hardware information.
  
• Perforce source control software by Perforce Software Inc. (www.perforce.com) has been used in the development of 3DMark05.