3DMark vs Breaking Limit
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
Breaking Limit
This app is a cross-platform graphics benchmark that uses raytracing technology to compare performance across mobile and desktop devices. It includes various tests and uploads results to an online scoreboard for ranking.
- Cross-platform graphics benchmark
- Raytracing technology
- Raytraced Shadows and Reflections
- Official benchmark tests
- Customizable settings
- Online scoreboard comparison
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Breaking Limit is a true cross-platform graphics benchmark for mobile and desktop platforms, enabling effortless comparison of graphics performance across various devices by utilizing the same workload. It leverages cutting-edge Raytracing technology, including Raytraced Shadows and Reflections. The results obtained by running the Official benchmarks are uploaded to Powerboard online scoreboard. There, you may compare your results against others and see where you rank. Included Tests: - Official: The main benchmark that uses standard settings. - Official Native: Uses the same content and settings as Official, but uses device’s display resolution as the rendering resolution. - Custom: Uses the same content as Official, but allows users to change settings from the default ones used in Official.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: 3DMark at 4.1 against Breaking Limit's 3.7. 3DMark also leads on update cadence (every 2 months vs every 10 months) and ratings volume (73 vs 3). Breaking Limit's advantage is review sentiment (75% vs 53%). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.
3DMark holds the better App Store score, 4.1 against 3.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: 3DMark has 73 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 53% of 3DMark's written reviews are positive against 75% of Breaking Limit's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
3DMark ships an update every 2 months, Breaking Limit every 10 months. The most recent releases landed on October 9, 2026 and September 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | 3DMark | Breaking Limit |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.1 (73 ratings) — better | 3.7 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 52.7% of reviews | 75.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 73 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 10 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 18.5 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 2.0 GB | 407 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Underwriters Laboratories Inc. | Basemark |
Customer experience
3DMark
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In-app purchases
3DMark
No in-app purchases
Breaking Limit
No in-app purchases
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