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    3DMark Solar Bay Extreme is available now!

    August 20, 2025

    Since the original Solar Bay Benchmark launched on Android, iOS, and Windows, hundreds of thousands of gamers around the world have ran it to see how their devices might handle the next generation of games developed for mobile devices and lightweight computers.

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    However, gaming technology moves fast, and just over the horizon are always new processors with the capability to run even more realistic lighting in games at minimal battery drain.

    To be ready for these, we think now is the time to clock things up with an extreme version of Solar Bay. It significantly increases the existing raytracing workload with additional raytracing implementations such as ray-traced specular reflections for all surfaces and glass reflections and ray-traced soft shadows for directional light.

    This time is a little different from previous extreme benchmarks of ours - not only have we turned up the scene heaviness with new raytracing techniques, but we’ve expanded the scene with an additional assembly bay. where a rival team is competing to build their solar array faster.

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    Available now as a free update

    Solar Bay Extreme is a free update for everyone who owns 3DMark, and supports Windows, Windows on Arm, macOS, iOS and Android.

    You can purchase 3DMark from Steam, the Epic Games Store or directly from 3DMark.com. 

    Get 3DMark from Steam 

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    Get 3DMark from 3DMark.com


    You can get 3DMark for Android and iOS for free from the app stores for those platforms. 

    Get 3DMark for Android from the Google Play Store

    Get 3DMark for iOS from the Apple App Store

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