You may have heard that Microsoft will end support for Windows 7 on January 14, 2020.

Benchmarks also have a natural lifespan that ends when they no longer provide meaningful results on modern hardware. When old benchmarks are used with new hardware, the results can be skewed or limited in ways that reduce their accuracy and relevance.

Today, we're announcing the end of support for 3DMark 11. From January 14, 2020 onward, 3DMark 11 will:

• No longer be sold on Steam or other app stores.
  
• No longer receive updates.
  
• No longer be guaranteed to work with our online services.
  
• No longer be eligible for customer support.

If you bought 3DMark 11 from Steam, you will continue to own it, and you will still be able to run it from your Steam Library.

3DMark 11 is a DirectX 11 benchmark that was released in 2010. If your PC is less than seven years old, you will get more useful and comparable results from the latest version of 3DMark.

We recommend 3DMark Time Spy for benchmarking gaming PCs with a discrete graphics card. For testing PCs with integrated graphics, we recommend 3DMark Night Raid. If you do not have a DirectX 12 compatible GPU, we recommend 3DMark Fire Strike for discrete graphics and 3DMark Sky Diver for integrated graphics.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/223850/3DMark/

Legacy benchmarks going back to 3DMark99 are available to download for free from the UL Benchmarks website. These unsupported benchmarks are provided for entertainment only with no guarantee of compatibility with current operating systems. 3DMark 11 will be available for free from January 14, 2020.

https://benchmarks.ul.com/legacy-benchmarks

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• Updated GPU detection module to improve compatibility with the latest GPUs.

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