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Heaven Benchmark
Heaven Benchmark is benchmarking software based on the Unigine, UNIGINE Engine. The benchmark was developed and published by Unigine Corp, UNIGINE Company in 2009. The main purpose of software is performance and stability testing for Graphics processing unit, GPUs. Users can choose a workload preset, Basic or Extreme, or set the parameters by custom. The benchmark 3D scene is a steampunk-style city on flying islands in the middle of the clouds. The scene is GPU-intensive because of Tessellation (computer graphics), tessellation used for all the surfaces, dynamic sky with volumetric clouds and day-night cycle, real-time global illumination, and screen-space ambient occlusion. Heaven and other benchmarks by Unigine Company, UNIGINE Company are often used by hardware reviewers to compare performance of GPUs and by overclockers for online and offline competitions in GPU overclocking. Running Heaven (or another benchmark by Unigine Company, UNIGINE Company) produces a performance scor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Freeware
Freeware is software, most often proprietary, that is distributed at no monetary cost to the end user. There is no agreed-upon set of rights, license, or EULA that defines ''freeware'' unambiguously; every publisher defines its own rules for the freeware it offers. For instance, modification, redistribution by third parties, and reverse engineering are permitted by some publishers but prohibited by others. Unlike with free and open-source software, which are also often distributed free of charge, the source code for freeware is typically not made available. Freeware may be intended to benefit its producer by, for example, encouraging sales of a more capable version, as in the freemium and shareware business models. History The term ''freeware'' was coined in 1982 by Andrew Fluegelman, who wanted to sell PC-Talk, the communications application he had created, outside of commercial distribution channels. Fluegelman distributed the program via a process now termed '' shareware''. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
