Approved drivers

We test each vendor's drivers against our driver approval policy and our benchmark rules to ensure they do not unfairly influence or manipulate benchmark scores. You should only compare 3DMark scores when using the approved Windows drivers listed on this page. Older drivers may also have been approved, but, in general, we recommend using the latest approved drivers to get the best results from your system.

Note that you will not be able to obtain a valid benchmark score if Lucid Virtu MVP HyperFormance is installed on your PC.


AMD

Tessellation Controls must remain unmodified in order to obtain a valid 3DMark score in Port Royal, Time Spy, Fire Strike, Night Raid, Sky Diver and 3DMark 11.

AMD Radeon Adrenalin Edition 24.2.1

  • For Radeon RX 7000, RX 6000 and RX 5000 series.
  • For Radeon RX 6800M RX 5700M, RX 5600M, RX 5500M and RX 5300M series.
  • For Radeon 700M and 600M series.

Radeon Pro Software Enterprise Edition 23.Q4

  • For Radeon Vega Frontier Edition, Pro VII, Pro Duo, Pro W and Pro WX series

AMD Radeon Adrenalin Edition 24.1.1

  • For Radeon VII, RX Vega, RX 500, RX 400 and Pro Duo series.
  • For Radeon 600 and RX 600 mobile series.

Radeon Pro Software Enterprise Edition 22.Q4

  • For Radeon Pro SSG, Pro V, FirePro W and FirePro S series

AMD Radeon Adrenalin Edition 22.6.1

  • For Radeon R9 Fury, R9 300, R9 200, R7 300, R7 200, R5 300 and R5 240 series.
  • For Radeon R9 M300, R9 M200, R7 M300, R7 M200, R5 M300 and R5 M200 series.
  • For Radeon HD 8500-8900, HD 7700-7900, HD 8500M-8900M and HD 7700M-7900M series.

Radeon Software 15.7.1

  • For Radeon R5 235X, R5 230, R5 220, HD 8000-8400, HD 7000-7600, HD 6000, HD 5000, HD 6000M and HD 5000M series.

Catalyst 13.1 Legacy

  • For Radeon HD 4000, HD 3000 and HD 2000 series.

NVIDIA

Please note that we do not test or approve drivers for NVIDIA Quadro Workstation GPUs.

GeForce 551.76 Game Ready

  • For NVIDIA GeForce 750, 750 Ti, 745, 900, 10, 16, 20, 30, 40, 800M, 900M, 10 (notebook), 16 (notebook), 20 (notebook), 30 (notebook) and 40 (notebook) series and Titan X, Xp, V and RTX Titan.

GeForce 551.61 Studio

  • For NVIDIA GeForce 10, 16, 20, 30, 40, RTX Titan, 10 (notebook), 16 (notebook), 20 (notebook), 30 (notebook) and 40 (notebook) series.

GeForce 474.64 (Windows 10 or 11) and 473.04 (Windows 7 or 8)

  • For NVIDIA GeForce 600, 700, 600M and 700M series, Titan, Titan Black and Titan Z.

GeForce 391.36

  • For NVIDIA GeForce 400, 500, 400M and 500M series

GeForce 342.01

  • For NVIDIA GeForce ION, ION LE, 8, 9, 100, 200, 300, 405, 8M, 9M, 100M, 200M, 300M and 405M series.

Intel

Important note about the approval status of Intel Graphics Drivers for Intel Arc graphics cards.

Intel Arc Graphics Driver 31.0.101.3277 and later are approved for use with 3DMark only when specific optimizations for 3DMark Time Spy and 3DMark Port Royal are turned off. This is the default behavior for this driver.

For more information, please read this support article.

These drivers are approved for all supported 3DMark tests. Some Intel GPUs cannot run all tests.

Intel Graphics Driver 31.0.101.5333

  • For Intel ARC, Iris Xe and UHD Graphics (Alder Lake, Tiger Lake, Rocket Lake, Raptor Lake, Meteor Lake) on Windows 10 and 11.

Intel Graphics Driver 31.0.101.4648

  • For Intel ARC Pro Graphics on Windows 10 and 11.

Intel Graphics Driver 31.0.101.2125

  • For Intel Xe Max, Xe, Iris, Iris Plus, UHD and HD Graphics (Gemini Lake, Jasper Lake, Lakefield, Comet Lake, Amber Lake, Ice Lake, Coffee Lake, Whiskey Lake, Kaby Lake) on Windows 10 and 11.

Intel Graphics Driver 31.0.101.2127

  • For Intel Intel HD Graphics (Skylake) on Windows 10 and 11.

Intel Graphics Driver 21.20.16.5174

  • For Intel Iris and Intel HD Graphics (Skylake) on Windows 7 and 8.1.

Intel Graphics Driver 20.19.15.5171

  • For Intel Iris and Intel HD Graphics (Broadwell and Haswell) Windows 10.

Intel Graphics Driver 10.18.14.5180

  • For Intel Iris and Intel HD Graphics (Haswell) on Windows 7 and 8.1.

Intel Graphics Driver 10.18.10.5161

  • For Intel HD Graphics (Ivy Bridge) on Windows 7 and 8.1

Intel Graphics Driver 10.18.14.5067

  • For older Intel integrated graphics (Sandy Bridge)

Intel Graphics Driver 7.15.10.1554

  • For older integrated graphics (pre-Sandy Bridge).

Driver approval policy


All currently supported Windows versions of 3DMark are covered by this policy.

Guidelines

Drivers must meet the following conditions before being considered for approval:

  • Only a vendor's official, public and production quality driver releases will be considered.
  • The driver must be WHQL-certified for all supported graphics chipsets.
  • The driver package must be publicly available for download from the vendor's website before the approval will be published.
  • OEM specific drivers based on an approved reference driver can be approved if they fulfil the guidelines.
  • We aim to process driver approval requests within seven working days.

Optimization Policy

Benchmark specific driver optimizations are not allowed. Additionally, all generic driver optimizations that change the rendering quality or rendering technique requested or specified by the benchmark are prohibited:

  • The driver may not change the rendering quality level, rendering technique or replace or alter any shaders or other parts of the benchmark test.
  • Driver optimizations based on empirical data of benchmark workloads are not allowed.
  • Generic driver optimizations that do not violate the above rules and benefit applications and games in general, are acceptable only if the rendering output is mathematically consistent with that of the Microsoft DirectX reference rasterizer.

Application detection

With the exception of setting mandatory parameters specific to systems with multiple GPUs, such as AMD CrossFire or NVIDIA SLI, drivers may not detect the launch of the benchmark executable and alter, replace or override any parameters or parts of the test based on the detection.

Special cases

In special cases, such as a major product launch, we will consider approving a new driver with the following exceptions to our standard policy:

  • The driver may be pre-release and is not required to be WHQL certified.
  • The driver must be delivered to UL Solutions at least seven days before the desired approval date.
  • The driver-package must be publicly available for download from the vendor's website within seven working days of the approval.

Cancellation

We reserve the right to cancel the approval of any driver if it is later found not to comply with the conditions defined in this, or later, versions of this policy. Such changes will be shown on the approved drivers list on this page.

Policy changes

We reserve the right to revise this document. This is version 1.1 updated on August 22, 2017.