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FutureMark Confirms nVidia's Benchmark Cheating
jlouderb writes "As first reported by ExtremeTech, Futuremark has confirmed that nVidia is cheating on its 3DMark2003 benchmark through eight driver optimizations. The 3D graphics performance war just keeps getting more and more interesting!" See our previous story.
WHAT?? My FX 5800 Leaf Blower only has a range of five feet and not six? I want a refund!
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How can company proceed to do its business while blatantly lying to its customers!!??
Oh wait, my medication just kicked in. It's just business as usual. I will just go on checking my MSN e-mail, while watching MSNBC, drinking my Coke and eating my McDonalds burger.
Never mind.
Wearing pants should always be optional.
No prom tickets for them.
They won't get into a good college.
Their grandparents and I are so ashamed.
Thank you for submitting this to Slashdot. With Futuremark slashdotted to death, NOBODY will be able to get the evidence! *manical laughter*
9th grade, you told me cheaters never make money
well 'pbhtbhtbthbth'
No, because ATI did a much worse job of cheating. Nvidia got a 24% boost out of some of the benchmarks while the best ATI could do was a measly 8%. This clearly shows that ATI must cheat harder if they want to keep up with Nvidia.
I read the internet for the articles.
nVidia Rep: Just look at how fast Quake III is running!
Reviewer: Sure but why is it just in wireframe?
Trolling is a art,
I too am an ex-Nvidia employee. It isn't just driver cheats that go on at nVidia. There are black spells and rituals, sometimes involving human sacrifice. The driver team will stop at nothing. I finally broke when asked to cruise kindergartens looking for virgins. When I spoke up and said "ATI doesn't rely on the power of Satan, why should we?" I was fired. They called it "gross incompetence" but we all knew it was because of my threat of whistle blowing. Stick with ATI if you want less baby killing.
If you want better
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AnandTech or ExtremeTech or even HardOCP.
"...we dont care about the economics; we just want to be able to hack great stuff."
No, you should buy 3 video cards from Fry's, then put older video cards (which need not even have the same bus on them) in the boxes, and return THOSE to the store. Those bastards will just shrinkwrap 'em and re-sell them.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
Never attribute to malice what can be explained by stupidity.
A phrase created by the malicious to make fun of the stupid.
Trident cheats on 3DMark too!
The linked
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still ran to ten or so pages, most having two or fewer paragraphs. Maybe that's why the site wasn't Slashdotted--nobody had the patience to click through the whole article.
~Idarubicin
as long as this keeps happening, benchmarks like 3dmark will just become meaningless
then we dont have to listen to the bragging
It says ATI cheated on the last test as well. This would be twice ATI's been caught and once for Nvidia. Who's worse off now? :)
They both suck. Build your own video card. Just make sure none of the parts you use are manuafactured by companies who do anything you disagree with.
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