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NVidia Accused of Inflating Benchmarks
Junky191 writes "With the NVidia GeForce FX 5900 recently released, this new high-end card seems to beat out ATI's 9800 pro, yet things are not as they appear. NVidia seems to be cheating on their drivers, inflating benchmark scores by cutting corners and causing scenes to be rendered improperly. Check out the ExtremeTech test results (especially their screenshots of garbled frames)."
They just hired some ATI engineers.
You make an excellent point. I am tired of spending way too much money trying to reach that holy grail of gaming. The slight improvement in hardware isn't going to change the fact that I'm only a mediocre gamer. The best gamers are going to kick my ass regardless of what hardware they use. I don't need to spend $400 every six months to be reminded of that.
Two things, both related to the key demographic:
1) When you're spending $200USD or more on any piece of hardware, you want to know that your purchasing decision was the best one you could make. Given that the majority of the people making these big-buck video card purchasing decisions are males in high school/college, who in general don't have that much money to begin with, the distinction between the cream and the crap can easily come down to the matter of a few hundred 3DMarks.
2) Penis size. When previously mentioned teenage boys buy the biggest, baddest video card there is, they typically like to rub that fact in all their friends' noses.
Karma: Dyn-o-mite!(mostly affected by Jimmy Walker reading your comments)
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Uhhh, can I have the sucky card?
Please?
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Comeon, don't lie. You left bc you were fired for divulging company secrets
My personal favorite from this article:
:-)
nVidia believes that the GeForceFX 5900 Ultra is trying to do intelligent culling and clipping to reduce its rendering workload
It's alive !
Hello! I'm a disaster waiting to happen!
Well, nethack isn't exactly 3D-intensive.
...and then ONLY to inflate the results) it would be increadiby significant. if so, I would *NEVER* buy another nvidia product again...
I admire your sense of integrity. I really do. But I feel sorry for the fact that you'll probably never be able to play Doom 3, HL2, or any other new 3D-intensive games. If you actually finished the article, you'd realize that ATI's been caught red-handed fudging results too. Let's boycott all of them!
I believe my 19.2" viewable-area monitor is a twenty-ONE inch monitor, thank-you-very-much!