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More on Futuremark and nVidia

Posted by michael on from the sweeten-the-pot dept.

AzrealAO writes "Futuremark and nVidia have released statements regarding the controversy over nVidia driver optimzations and the FutureMark 2003 Benchmark. "Futuremark now has a deeper understanding of the situation and NVIDIA's optimization strategy. In the light of this, Futuremark now states that NVIDIA's driver design is an application specific optimization and not a cheat."" So nVidia's drivers are optimized specifically to run 3DMark2003... and that's not a cheat.

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  1. Re:NVIDIA convinced them to change the rules by be-fan · · Score: 5, Informative

    One key point, though: NVIDIA's shader precision is much higher than ATI's at its highest settings. NVIDIA's middle precision, however, is lower than ATI's maximum. This means that comparing the performance of the two is kind of a crap shot, because you can't configure the two to use the same precision.

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