Futuremark releases an update for their 3DMark 11, a gaming benchmark for DirectX 11 PCs.

Designed for industrial testing, the Powermark is a battery life and power consumption test for notebooks, laptops, tablets and other battery powered devices running Windows 7.

The development of 3DMark for Android has started, and it will aim to bring the industry standard gaming performance benchmark to Android tablets in 2012.

Designed for gaming performance measurement and comparison, 3DMark will be able to accurately measure and compare gaming across all devices and graphical feature sets available with Windows 8.

If you're an avid benchmarker, 3DMark 11 would likely be part of your suite of test software. Futuremark has just released a small update that improves compatibility with the latest hardware and recommends updating the benchmark.

Futuremark confirms that PCMark 7, a new benchmark offering complete PC performance testing for Windows 7, will be released on May 3, 2011.

FutureMark announced PCMark 7 today, a new benchmark offering complete PC performance analysis for Windows 7.

Gigabyte is pleased to announce the Gigabyte System Builder, based on Futuremark's popular 3DMark PC benchmark scoring system, is now live.