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New DX10 Benchmarks Do More Bad than Good
NIMBY writes "An interesting editorial over at PC Perspective looks at the changing status between modern game developers and companies like AMD and NVIDIA that depend on their work to show off their products. Recently, both AMD and NVIDIA separately helped in releasing DX10 benchmarks based on upcoming games that show the other hardware vendor in a negative light. But what went on behind the scenes? Can any collaboration these companies use actually be trusted by reviewers and the public to base a purchasing decision on? The author thinks the one source of resolution to this is have honest game developers take a stance for the gamer."
Use OpenGL.
i thought once I was found, but it was only a dream.
DX10 or for the uninformed, Derendering eXtraction (10 megapixels/second) is a standard benchmark for measuring the performance of GPUs or Gradient Pixilization Units. Pretty much this is what the video card companies all base their prices on with price being directly related to how many pixels can be gradiated per unit (usually about 30 cents per pixel/ounce).
He seems to be less anti-DirectX these days:
"JC: DX9 has its act together well. I like the version of DirectX on the 360. Microsoft is doing well with DX10 on tightening the specs and the exactness."
Of course, he's still calls it like it is:
"The new features are not exactly well-thought-out. Most developers are pretty happy with DX9. The changes with DX10 aren't as radical. It's not like getting pixel shaders for the first time. Single-pass shaders are nice with DX10, but it's a smaller change. "
More Twoson than Cupertino
As my third year computer design lecture loved saying: There are lies; then there are damn Lies; and then there are benchmarks.