Shader Benchmark: leaderboard

Shader Benchmark (nbardy) — generating shader programs from natural-language prompts, graded by an LLM judge panel with render failures counting as zero; average judge score (0-500).

Metric: Avg judge score (0-500, render fails count 0). Source: nbardy.github.io. Saturation forecast: Around May 2028. 3 models tracked.

Top models

#ModelScoreOverall rank
1GPT-5.5 (High)242.2#31 (GPT-5.5)
2Claude Opus 4.7235.2#49
3Gemini 3.1 Pro (Preview)224#58

No result here: #3 Claude Opus 5.5, #6 GPT-6 Astra, #7 GPT-6.1 Sol.

Interactive version: theaggregate.ai/benchmark?slug=shader-benchmark · How It Works · Data refreshed daily, snapshot 2026-10-20.