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FutureMark Confirms nVidia's Benchmark Cheating

Posted by michael on from the red-handed dept.

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.

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  1. Performance Difference Due to These Cheats by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    A test system with GeForceFX 5900 Ultra and the 44.03 drivers gets 5806 3DMarks with
    3DMark03 build 320.
    The new build 330 of 3DMark03 in which 44.03 drivers cannot identify 3DMark03 or the tests in
    that build gets 4679 3DMarks - a 24.1% drop.
    Our investigations reveal that some drivers from ATI also produce a slightly lower total score on
    this new build of 3DMark03. The drop in performance on the same test system with a Radeon
    9800 Pro using the Catalyst 3.4 drivers is 1.9%. This performance drop is almost entirely due to
    8.2% difference in the game test 4 result, which means that the test was also detected and
    somehow altered by the ATI drivers. We are currently investigating this further.