The new 3DMark Holiday Beta update includes the new 3DMark interface that will be officially available in 2016, which promises to be faster, more flexible and more intuitive. The interface includes the new "Home Screen" with the recommended benchmark for your systems.

In addition to the new interface, Futuremark said that it has rebuilt the internals of the 3DMark benchmark which will allow users to download, install and update benchmarks independently, thus making downloads and updates much smaller and allowing users to install and update only the tests that they actually need.

The new 3DMark Holiday Beta update also includes an interactive preview of VRMark, Futuremark's upcoming virtual reality (VR) benchmark. Preview will also users to move freely within one of VRMark's test environments and works both with and without VR headsets. The preview will not produce a score and it is only included for entertainment purposes.

The 3DMark Holiday Beta update is available to all that own 3DMark on Steam. Those users that have the standalone Advanced Edition and do not want to wait for the official update which will come in 2016, can check out Steam FAQ and add their 3DMark key to Steam.

We already know that Futuremark is working on VRMark as well as the 3DMark Time Spy, a DirectX 12 benchmark and we are quite sure we will hear more about it at CES 2016 in January 2016.