Futuremark And Gainward Tangle Over Benchmarks

Posted by simoniker on Wednesday November 12, 2003 @04:01PM from the graphics-punch-up dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The optimization troubles in GPU land aren't over yet. Yesterday Futuremark released a new anti-optimization patch for 3DMark03. Gainward (who sell graphics cards using NVIDIA hardware) today made a comment that Futuremark had disabled certain features in their ForceWare 52.16 drivers, thus resulting in huge performance drops. A few hours ago Futuremark made an official statement about this : 'The accusation is totally wrong because what it suggests is not even feasible technically. 3DMark03 does not talk to graphics driver, it talks to the DirectX API, which then talks to the driver. Thus, it is impossible for the application to disable GPU compiler...'"

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Re:omg by SuuSt · 2003-11-12 18:43 · Score: 4, Insightful

a) is your video card good enough to do the things you do.

b) the price/performance ratio, unless you have tons of money.

And how, preciselly, are we supposed to determine those price/performance ratios if our benchmarking suites are lying to us?