3DMark Solar Bay benchmarks ray tracing performance on Windows and Android devices during gaming. It delivers real-time reflections through Vulkan 1.1 ray tracing for added graphic realism. The workload ramps up across three stages, each boosting by 100%, and lets users compare scores between platforms. On PC, it pairs with Port Royal and Speed Way to gauge scaling across ray tracing tasks.
The Solar Bay stress test loops the workload for twenty minutes to mimic prolonged ray-traced gaming. It generates a performance chart tracking changes in speed and heat management over time. This utility helps hardware enthusiasts measure device stability under heavy ray tracing loads.
About Solar Bay
3DMark Solar Bay tests how Windows and Android devices perform when gaming with ray tracing. Results can be compared between platforms. The Solar Bay stress test shows how performance changes over extended gaming sessions.
Real-time ray tracing brings new levels of realism to in-game graphics. Solar Bay uses Vulkan 1.1 ray tracing to generate realistic real-time reflections on devices running Android or Windows.
Solar Bay鈥檚 ray traced workload increases over three stages, with each section increasing linearly by 100%. On PC, Solar Bay complements our heavier ray tracing benchmarks Port Royal and Speed Way. With it鈥檚 three ray tracing benchmarks and the Raytracing feature test, 3DMark covers a wide range of ray tracing workloads, making it an excellent way to measure how your PC鈥檚 ray tracing performance scales.
Solar Bay Stress Test
The Solar Bay 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 and 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鈥檚 performance changed during the test. This chart can help you understand how your device manages performance and heat during heavy use.
