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nVidia Criticizes 3DMark03
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Posted by: TotalRecall
nVidia is making some statements on the merit of 3DMark 2003's benchmarking results. Here's what they said to GameSpot:
On a related note, Nvidia has contacted us to say that it doesn't support the use of 3DMark 2003 as a primary benchmark in the evaluation of graphics cards, as the company believes the benchmark doesn't represent how current games are being designed. Specifically, Nvidia contends that the first test is an unrealistically simple scene that's primarily single-textured, that the stencil shadows in the second and third tests are rendered using an inefficient method that's extremely bottlenecked at the vertex engine, and that many of the pixel shaders use specific elements of DX8 that are promoted by ATI but aren't common in current games.
3DMark developers have their own opinions. More here. nVidia also had a talk with HotHardware. The Tech Report is running a comparison of the marks made. HardOCP frowns upon driver updates which optimize cards for the synthetic benchmarks, and in turn states they will not be using 3DMark03 as a benchmarking gauge.
Posted by: taco_fox
"HardOCP frowns upon driver updates which optimize cards for the synthetic benchmarks..."
Wait.. is this something new?
Posted by: Canis Lupus
Not to you, obviously 
Posted by: SKYHN
Futuremark just released a .pdf replying to what nvidia and other companies/people are saying about 3dmark03
http://www.futuremark.com/companyin..._discussion.pdf
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