As of last December 2002, MadOnion was renamed back to Futuremark. Futuremark has also re-designed their WebPages to a very modern and easy to navigate design. If you are not familiar with the line and benchmarks that Futuremark has created, here is a quick refresher course.

If we want to start with the very beginning we need to mention Final Reality, which was a Direct3D (DirectX 5.0) benchmark co-developed by Remedy Entertainment and VNU European Labs back in 1997. This was the very first benchmark to allude to Remedy Entertainments Max Payne which you saw the advertisement for on the side of a building in the “City Scene” 3D test. The rendering engine was an earlier engine designed by Remedy known as E2. E2 was the start that led to the Max-FX engine that later 3DMark benchmarks utilized.