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Intel Caught Cheating In 3DMark Benchmark

Posted by kdawson on from the try-something-smarter-than-detecting-the-app-name dept.

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."

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  1. Re:Good reporting there Ric by sexconker · · Score: 0, Redundant

    How is better performance a bad thing?
    Optimizing for a game is good.
    Optimizing for a benchmark is bullshit.

    And Crysis isn't a benchmark, no matter how much people want it to be.
    It's buggy, it scales horribly, and it's simply crap in terms of efficiency.
    Add on the fact that it's not a very good game (I got bored when the ice thing happened), and I wonder why people still talk about it.

    People seem to like it because it stresses a system. Just because it runs like shit doesn't mean it's a good measure of your system's capabilities.
    I can write a shitty 3D program that will bring the latest dual quad-core, quad-crossfire/sli system to it's knees. That doesn't mean a damned thing.