Intel Caught Cheating In 3DMark Benchmark

EconolineCrush writes "3DMark Vantage developer Futuremark has clear guidelines for what sort of driver optimizations are permitted with its graphics benchmark. Intel's current Windows 7 drivers appear to be in direct violation, offloading the graphics workload onto the CPU to artificially inflate scores for the company's integrated graphics chipsets. The Tech Report lays out the evidence, along with Intel's response, and illustrates that 3DMark scores don't necessarily track with game performance, anyway."

Comments

A large corporation lying?

[Anonymous Coward]

I'm shocked shocked shocked, I tell you.

Re:Eh?

[jim_v2000]

Having used Intel graphics chips, I can't blame them for wanting to use the CPU instead.

Re:Good reporting there Ric

[Fred_A]

The driver apparently detects "crysis.exe" and inflates performance metrics by offloading processing, whereas renaming the executable to "crisis.exe" gives realistic performance scores. Please RTFA before replying.

Thanks for the tip, I've now renamed all my games to "crysis.exe" and am now enjoying a major speed boost. You've given my laptop a new youth !

I can finally get rid of that cumbersome i7 box with that noisy nVidia !