Anandtech: 3DMark worst benchmark ever seen
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Actually I think a seminar on it would be kind of neat, I bet an IHV might even sponsor it.
Sort of a standards committee for benchmarking, it'd be a hoot!
Sort of a standards committee for benchmarking, it'd be a hoot!
I don't expect next 3DMark favor anyone on purpose. based on information I have heard, nVidia didn't like the 2001 either and they also said it to Futuremark / MadOnion.
(I do not have knowledge which part they didn't like but I suspect that nVidia didn't like seeing original Radeon as close as it was against the GF2GTS and surpassing their best seller GF2MX. After all, Radeon was originally designed to compete against GF256, but it delayed so much that nVidia got already GF2GTS out.)
and again, Anandtech likes what ever nVidia likes. He is just a hand puppet nowadays. Though nVidia is back on beta program, I really can't see nVidia hyping 3DMark 03 nor upcoming version.
EDIT: wrong preposition
(I do not have knowledge which part they didn't like but I suspect that nVidia didn't like seeing original Radeon as close as it was against the GF2GTS and surpassing their best seller GF2MX. After all, Radeon was originally designed to compete against GF256, but it delayed so much that nVidia got already GF2GTS out.)
and again, Anandtech likes what ever nVidia likes. He is just a hand puppet nowadays. Though nVidia is back on beta program, I really can't see nVidia hyping 3DMark 03 nor upcoming version.
EDIT: wrong preposition
Nvidia simply likes to put the blaim on Futuremark for their failures. And like sheep everyone who has a bias towards nvidia believes whatever they say, thus the bad publicity and taunts 3DMark03 has recieved. As long as IHVs do not cheat by degrading image quality and follow D3D standards, it serves it's purpose.
3D Mark isn't the problem as such; rather it's people over-reliance on it's results as being definitive. If used as part of a sweet of benchmarking, along with real-world applications, then it's fine. Just don't rely on it's results to be totally indicative of a card's real performance.
I disagree. Over time the ORB rankings have been totally indicative of general game performance with the right generation hardware (i.e dont use 2001 on non TnL/DX8 hardware, don't use '03 on non DX9 hardware).
I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought Derek's comment was unprofessional.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought Derek's comment was unprofessional.
Diplo said:
If people had relied soley on 3DMark03 they would have bought ATI rather than nVIdia... this would have been a GOOD THING. Yes, it shouldn't be relied on as the be all and end all of benchmarks, but it is very good at what it does, it's just that the human race isn't bery bright.
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Joe DeFuria said:
I dont even bother trying to keep up with 3dmarks 'acceptance' among the ati and nvidia camps. One week one group likes it and the other hates it and then the next week its flipflopped. It seems to change with the wind....
Evildeus said:
Who told you this?
BS. Gainward doesn't even carry 6800-line AT ALL: http://www.gainward.com/index.html
eVGA has no such product: http://evga.com/products/prod_list.asp?switch=1&family=GeForce+6800+Family
BFG doesn't have anything like that either: http://www.bfgtech.com/6800.html
As I said already, as far as I know there's no such a thing called Ultra Extreme of NVIDIA 6800, at least as of now. Neither officially/unofficially from NVIDIA nor from its manufacturing partners.
PS: My sense is telling me this Ultra Extreme thingy is nothing else just an artifical benchmark-piece mod, made specifically for web-reviewers with low or zero integrity like Tom's Garbage, AnandBleh etc.
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