NVIDIA cheating on its benchmarks.

mrmistermrmister
Posted:
in General Discussion edited January 2014
Eek. It's NVIDIA's turn. You'd think they'd have learned from ATI's blunder with "Quack" 3.



http://www.futuremark.com/companyinf...dit_report.pdf

Comments

  • Reply 1 of 7
    fotnsfotns Posts: 301member
    Futurmark is not a very good benchmark. And, the update also lowers ATI's scores as well. I don't think it's cheating to tune the drivers for maximum performance.
  • Reply 2 of 7
    powerdocpowerdoc Posts: 8,123member
    Nvidia is cheating with his benchmarks obviously



    The official excuse for this incredible 3DMark03 is drivers problems, the good answers is they cheat. : http://www.extremetech.com/article2/...1086025,00.asp



    Their trick is built on the fact that in demo, the camera follow a predertemined line, at the contrary of real game where the player control the camera. : in french http://www.hardware.fr/news/imprimer/5776/



    The result is over optimistic results contrary to ATI : http://www.hardware.fr/html/news/ where the result differ only a little. Futuremark realised a patch to disable such enhancing and have a more real result.



    For those who don't believe such enhancements in drivers exist, i should suggest them to see the level of their own demo, compared to what this card can really perform in today games.
  • Reply 3 of 7
    fotnsfotns Posts: 301member
    Futuremark is rewarding ATI which pays the exorbitant fees to be part of the beta program, and punishing Nvidia which doesn't.



    Nvidia Response
  • Reply 4 of 7
    powerdocpowerdoc Posts: 8,123member
    Perhaps but in real game performances there is very little differences between the geforce 5900 and the ATI 9800 unlike what said 3Dmark2003.
  • Reply 5 of 7
    bartobarto Posts: 2,246member
    nVidia sucks. They were a monoploy in the graphics card market, but then ATi started producing better products.



    Now they are perpetuating FUD about Futuremark being an ATi propaganda tool. They won't pay the fees so they can optimize their product for it, so that makes all-out cheating in it OK??? WTF???



    Barto
  • Reply 6 of 7
    lemon bon bonlemon bon bon Posts: 2,383member
    Does it matter? The Mac doesn't have either of these cards.



    Hopefully the next round of tower updates (already overdue) should change that.



    Lemon Bon Bon
  • Reply 7 of 7
    curiousuburbcuriousuburb Posts: 3,325member
    it would be nice to see a Mac version of 3DMark, though
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