Unigine Superposition Benchmark finally released

Unigine is well known for its graphics benchmark tools. Its Heaven (2009) benchmark leaned heavily on hardware tessellation technology and real-time global illumination, and the Valley benchmark from 2013 put dynamic sky, volumetric clouds, sun shafts, and ambient occlusion to the test. Now, Unigine’s Superposition benchmark puts your GPU through its paces with physically based rendering of surface materials.

There is still room for improvement as overclocks for CPU and GPU weren't recognized. But I dare say that there'll be few systems out there that can run the 4K or even 8K benchmark with 60+ fps.

The Unigine Superposition benchmark includes performance tests for standard displays and VR HMDs.The performance benchmark page lets you select from several presets, including 720p low; 1080p medium, high, and extreme; 4K optimized; and 8K optimized. You can also define custom parameters, including resolution, texture quality, and shader quality. You can also toggle depth of field and motion blur and choose between the DirectX and OpenGL graphics APIs.

The Unigine Superposition benchmark also includes a game mode which lets you interact with many of the highly-detailed objects in the room. The advanced version of the benchmark also includes a VR version of the game that lets you visit the virtual environment first hand.

DirectX12 and Vulkan will be added in a future version of this benchmark (but there's no date).
Leaderboard is currently not accessible, but all results are being recorded and will be shown on the new website once the leaderboard goes live.

For comparision here you can watch the benchmark in 8K@60fps (yay YouTube already supports 8K)

Bit-tech: ''Unigine's Superposition Benchmark hit the Greenlight platform three months ago, and by late December last year had received 1,787 positive votes - around 96 percent of all votes - making it one of the most popular items on the list. This week, though, the company announced that the software would not be coming to Steam after all - and pinned the blame firmly on Valve.

'The first announcement in this year, unfortunately, won’t be very cheering. Superposition Benchmark was excluded out of the Greenlight [programme] after three months of active voting,' the company's Steam post explained. 'It was #1 recently, but was declined by Steam moderation team because ‘benchmark’ is not kind of software that allowed to take part in Greenlight at the moment. Well, this is the unpleasant surprise for us as well, but those are the Steam rules.'

The FAQs for Greenlight do indeed make clear that the service is only for selected software types: games, animation and modelling, audio production, design and illustration, photo editing, and video production. Despite their popularity among gamers, benchmarks clearly fall outside these categories - though you'd be forgiven for not realising this, given the long list of benchmarks Steam users can browse and install: Futuremark's 3DMark, PCMark, and VRMark, Geekbench 3, Catzilla 4K, the Resident Evil 6 Benchmark Tool, and Valve's own SteamVR Performance Test all appear following a cursory search for 'benchmark', but Superposition will not be among them.''