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NVidia Accused of Inflating Benchmarks

Posted by michael on from the pointing-fingers dept.

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)."

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  1. The reason by S.I.O. · · Score: 5, Funny

    They just hired some ATI engineers.

  2. Re:Does this even improve your experience? by Hellkitty · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  3. Re:What's the big news? by medscaper · · Score: 4, Funny
    my video card does 45300 fps in quake and yours only does 45292, your card sucks

    Uhhh, can I have the sucky card?

    Please?

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  4. Re:What's the big news? by kzeddy · · Score: 3, Funny

    Comeon, don't lie. You left bc you were fired for divulging company secrets

  5. Favorite quote from the article! by ElGanzoLoco · · Score: 3, Funny

    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 ! :-)

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  6. Re:NVIDIA == Thieves and Liars if et is correct by Polo · · Score: 4, Funny

    I believe my 19.2" viewable-area monitor is a twenty-ONE inch monitor, thank-you-very-much!