Benchmarks

3DMark Solar Bay is a cross-platform benchmark for ray tracing capable Windows, macOS, iOS, and Android based devices. Use Solar Bay to test and compare the graphics performance of the latest high-end phones, tablets, game handhelds, and lightweight PCs. Solar Bay Extreme is our most demanding ray tracing benchmark for lightweigt devices with integrated graphics. 

Solar Bay Extreme uses different graphics APIs depending on the operaring system or - where possible - the user's choice. For ray tracing on Windows devices, it uses either the DirectX12 (default) or Vulkan ray tracing pipeline. On Android devices its Vulkan ray query and on iOS devices Solar Bay Extreme uses Apple's Metal API with ray query. You can compare scores cross-platform. Please refer to the System requirements page for full Vulkan requirements. 

Note: Users of the Enterprise version can switch between ray tracing pipeline and ray query, depending on operating system, drivers and hardware used. 

Solar Bay Extreme benchmark

The default Solar Bay Extreme benchmark runs for 1 minute. It measures the device’s performance when gaming with raytracing enabled. The length of this benchmark is designed to mirror a mobile game where the workload is short bursts of activity.

Solar Bay Extreme stress test

The Solar Bay Extreme stress test is a longer test that shows how a device will perform over extended periods of ray-traced gaming. It is designed to mirror a longer session of ray-traced gaming. This test runs the Solar Bay workload in a loop for twenty minutes.

Instead of producing a single score, the main result from the stress test is a chart that shows you how the device’s performance changed during the test. This chart can help you understand how your device manages performance and heat during heavy use.