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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)."
An 80 gig drive is 80 * one billion bytes, that's how they've always been measured, it's the standard. Of course 80*2^30 is how we'd do it, but once again, a standard. UltraDMA is CAPABLE reaching that speed, that's what the number quoted is, maximum capability. A 20" crt has a 20" long tube, that's how crt monitors have always been measured. I don't know shit about scanners and a 56k modem CAN do 56k, just maybe not in your backwater nation.
The numbers quoted are with regards to the hardware alone in the best possible environment. That is the standard way of measuring things. The argument is as weak as saying 'i bought this car engine that delivers 250 horsepower', and then i complaing and say that 'i don't get nearly 250 hp, I get 0. I don't have a car to install this engine in'. Does it make any sense for me to complain to the engine manufacturer about this? I don't think so.
-Reid