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)."

Comments

Re:Hmmmm

[drzhivago]

Do you remember how a year or so ago ATI released a driver set that reduced image quality in Quake 3 to increase frame rate?

Here is a link about it in case you forgot or didn't know.

It just goes to show that both companies play that game, and neither to good results.

Re:whatever

[Pulzar]

Instead of only looking at the pictures, read the whole article before making decisions on whether it's a driver "fuckup" or an intentional optimization.

The short of it is that nVidia added hard-coded clipping of the scenes for everything that the banchmark doesn't show in its normal run, and which gets exposed as soon as you move the camera away from its regular path.

It's a step in the direction of recording an mpeg on what the benchmark is supposed to show and then playing it back at 200 fps.