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Benchmarking the Benchmarks

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the blogging-the-bloggers dept.

apoppin writes "HardOCP put video card benchmarking on trial and comes back with some pretty incredible verdicts. They show one video returning benchmark scores much better than another compared to what you get when you actually play the game. Lies, damn lies, and benchmarks."

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  1. back in my day... by Aranykai · · Score: 4, Funny

    We used to benchmark a computer by *gasp* actually running things on it. If you wanted to find out how well it would perform running a game, you played the damn game and found out. Course, thats not good enough for these ubernoobs who think they are cool with their benchmark scores on their forum signatures...

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    1. Re:back in my day... by SQLGuru · · Score: 5, Funny

      And, on top of that, they are on your lawn....

      Layne

  2. My old benchmark by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    I used to do this benchmark:
    10 PRINT TIME$
    20 FOR I=1 TO 9999
    30 NEXT I
    40 PRINT TIME$

    I then improved it to be:
    10 A$=TIME$
    20 IF A$=TIME$ THEN GOTO 20 !breaks out when the seconds change
    30 I=1:A$=TIME$
    40 I=I+1:IF A$=TIME$ THEN GOTO 40
    50 PRINT I

    Ahhh...the good old days... (1970s, early 1980s)

    1. Re:My old benchmark by sempernoctis · · Score: 4, Funny

      My favorite benchmark for finding the size of the memory heap:

      void doit(int i) { printf("%i\n", i); doit(i + 1); }

      worked really well until I tried it in an environment where the call stack could get paged...then it turned into a hard drive benchmark

  3. We need international benchmarking standards! by Thanshin · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...And an international benchmarking committee.

    To avoid concentrating all the data management in a single entity, we need a national benchmarking committee for each country and then international elections to get a chief of benchmarking interrelationships or CBI.

    To avoid the possible corruption of the CBI, we would need an independent international supervision committee for the review of benchmarking standards.

    The IISCRBS would review the actions of the CBI yearly and produce a thorough report.

    That report (which would be called the IISCRBS-CBI report) would be the main reference to start any kind of productive debate about who has the leetest rack and who's a lame n00b.

  4. Re:Would like to see a real world comparison for E by Digital+Vomit · · Score: 4, Funny

    I have what was a "hot" card only eighteen months ago (7800) ago and now it is stuttering on some of the newer content when I'm raiding.

    Are you one of those software pirates?

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  5. Re:OSS by snoyberg · · Score: 5, Funny

    PS yes...release your rage and mod me down.... just makes my post more Insightful.

    Translation: if you mod me down, I will become more insightful than you can possibly imagine.

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