ATI Distributing Spurious HL2 Benchmarks

Posted by Zonk on Thursday November 18, 2004 @04:35AM from the game-card-makers-get-involved-in-the-process dept.

BatonRogue writes "Apparently ATI provided a few Half Life 2 benchmarks to the press and some websites are actually using the benchmarks for their Half Life 2 performance reviews. AnandTech and HardOCP seem to be the only reputable sources of Half Life 2 performance data as they both put together their own benchmarks representative of Half Life 2 gameplay. AnandTech apparently went through every Half Life 2 level and put together a list of the 11 most stressful levels and then created 5 demos, while HardOCP put together two long benchmarks for their review. AnandTech and HardOCP's results appear to agree with each other, while the ATI-backed benchmarks show ATI with a huge performance lead in Half Life 2. Apparently (according to the AnandTech article), ATI was allowed to make their demos while at Valve before Half Life 2 was released, while Valve would not let NVIDIA remove any data from their time at Valve until the game was released. Politics at work as usual."

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Nice troll, dude. by Anonymous Coward · 2004-11-18 05:43 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Trolls take note:

Seriously, everyone take a look at the parent. It's a very well-written troll. It makes excellent use of fanboyish "l33t" speak and enthusiastic, unsupported to claims to give a flavour of ignorance and immaturity that's enough to elicit a response without being overtly offensive. It even manages to be slightly humourous to someone who recognizes that it is, in fact, a troll.

We need more trolls of this quality. Kudos on a job well done!