3D Game Benchmark vs 3DMark
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
3D Game Benchmark
Test your device's gaming performance with this interactive benchmark. It displays frames per second (FPS) in visually complex scenes rendered with a game engine. Explore different levels with full camera control.
- Interactive benchmark utility
- Displays FPS in complex scenes
- Full camera movement and interaction
- Twin joystick control scheme
- OpenGL rendering
- 6 different test scenes
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3D Game Benchmark is an interactive benchmark utility to test the speed of your device in an actual game engine. The benchmark shows the FPS (frames per second) while displaying scenes with high triangle and pixel shader complexity. CONTROLS: The benchmark allows for full camera movement and interaction with the level using a twin joystick control scheme. Move with the left joystick and aim the camera with the right joystick. TECHNICAL: The benchmark engine uses OpenGL to draw scenes and characters from the game Heavy Blade. Each scene uses forward rendering with additive lighting, using 4 dynamic lights with shadow maps, per pixel specular and normal lighting. 6 Different scenes are available: Basic 4 characters, 4 lights Medium 16 characters, 4 lights Extreme 64 characters, 4 lights 3 actual game levels that you can move the camera around and inspect. For more games and apps visit www.RockingPocketGames.com
3DMark
Benchmark your iOS device to measure and compare its graphics performance. Test the latest iPhones and iPads with various demanding game-like scenes, including ray tracing, to understand real-world gaming capabilities and track performance changes over time.
- GPU performance testing
- Ray tracing benchmarks
- Gaming workload simulations
- Cross-platform comparisons
- Stress testing for sustained performance
- Device performance rankings
- Performance change tracking
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Test and compare the performance of the latest iPhones and iPads with this free and easy-to-use benchmarking app. 3DMark Solar Bay Extreme is a ray-traced gaming benchmark, designed to test the graphics performance of high-end iPhones and iPads. 3DMark Steel Nomad Light is our heaviest non-raytracing benchmark for iOS. Steel Nomad Light lets you compare the performance of the latest iPhones and iPads in heavy gaming workloads. Run 3DMark Solar Bay to compare the latest iOS devices that support gaming with real-time ray tracing. Ray tracing is a new technology in games that is used to produce far more realistic lighting. It has three sections with increasingly higher ray tracing workloads, helping you understand how enabling ray tracing will affect your device’s gaming performance. 3DMark Wild Life is a cross-platform benchmarking app for comparing the performance of the latest smartphones and tablets. Use 3DMark Wild Life Extreme to test and compare the latest iPhones and iPads as well as Apple Mac computers with the M1 chip. Or run the original Wild Life benchmark to test older iPhone and iPad models. 3DMark Steel Nomad Light, Solar Bay, Wild Life, and Wild Life Extreme offer two ways to test your device: a quick benchmark that tests instant performance and a longer stress test that shows how your device performs under longer periods of heavy load. 3DMark benchmarks measure GPU performance by rendering a demanding game-like scene in real-time. The faster the scene runs, the higher your benchmark score. With its charts, lists and rankings, 3DMark gives you unique insights into the performance of your device. - Measure the GPU performance of your iPhone and iPad. - Compare your score with others from the same model. - See how your device compares with the latest models. - See how performance changes with each iOS update. - Search, filter and sort the in-app rankings to compare popular devices. 3DMark is a free app. There are no ads or in-app purchases. Download it today and join millions of people who choose 3DMark for accurate and impartial benchmark results. This app is for non-commercial use only. - Business users, contact UL.BenchmarkSales@ul.com for licensing. - Members of the press, please contact UL.BenchmarkPress@ul.com.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: 3D Game Benchmark at 100% against 3DMark's 53%. 3D Game Benchmark also leads on rating (4.5 vs 4.1) and iOS requirement (9.0 vs 15.0). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
3D Game Benchmark holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 4.1. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 61 and 73 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of 3D Game Benchmark's written reviews are positive against 53% of 3DMark's.
| Parameter | 3D Game Benchmark | 3DMark |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (61 ratings) — better | 4.1 (73 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 52.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 61 | 73 — better |
| Update frequency | — | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 130 MB | 2.0 GB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Chris Egerter | Underwriters Laboratories Inc. |
Customer experience
3D Game Benchmark
3DMark
In-app purchases
3D Game Benchmark
No in-app purchases
3DMark
No in-app purchases









