... Leeeeet's Ruumblllle!!!
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k, got word from futuremark that this 3dmark03 behaviour is a bug and that they are currently working together with nvidia to solve the glitch. Expect further explanations from futuremark in the coming days.."
Consider the Source. I have yet to see any determination to this effect anywhere else. Just checked FM's website. Nothing there. No comment at Nvidia either. No surprise there actually. They seem to be adopting a wait and see attitude, probably hoping this will blow over. I personally hope it blows up! I did find this little tidbit of news though... this is a gem.
"SANTA CLARA—MAY 14, 2003—NVIDIA Corporation, the worldwide leader in visual processing solutions, today announced that the Stanford Business School Alumni Association has named NVIDIA as the Entrepreneurial Company of the Year for 2003."
That takes the cake!
And this bit from an earlier post...
"Finally, i don't see your point. Every website has their customers. I like the way B3D does, but i also like [H] reviews. They are not directed to the same public. Moreover, i think more people like "kickass" reviews than you think"
I do not care about "Kickass" as much as I care about Integrity. If it is Honestly Kickass that's one thing, If it is kickass because of cheating, that's something entirely different.
I feel sorry for "Joe Public", who doesn't see these Forum discussions and hasn't a clue he's being cheated out of his money with bogus Benchmark Numbers. In my Book this is Theft by Deception. When you make purchasing decisions based on intentionally Falsified data, your being Ripped off. Since the Benchmark results are defacto Advertising for the Company, this starts looking like False Advertising to me.
Unless Both ATIs' and Nvidias' cards are doing the same amount of work each run, as intended, the results are worthless. The Benchmark is supposed to measure how Fast a Given work load for the scene is run. If Card 1 is doing X rendering workload and Card 2 is doing X-20% workload the results are Bogus and misleading. I don't like being misled.
Yes! I'm sure ATI has Optimized it's drivers for 3dMark03, and Nvidia had the same opportunity until they dropped out of the Beta Program. By that time, Nvidia pretty well had their drivers tweaked anyway. It seems to me that Optimizing the driver code to render the scene faster such as combining several Shader passes down to one pass or something similar is different from reducing overall scene complexity by not rendering the bits not seen by the viewer. The first one increases efficiency while running all the work, the other is only rendering Part of the work. Not the same at all.
But hey!, If Nvidia wants to play that way, then let's let ATI do the same thing and we'll run the benches again on an even playing field. Now what are the Bench results? I think the "Whoa!!! FX5900Ultra Rocks" posts will be as rare as a Virgin at a Frat Party.
my last 4 cards were Nvidia products. My next Purchase won't be. I'll speak with my $$$.
... and thanks for the linkage Joe. After reading it, I think FiringSquad handled the situation in a very Intelligent manner. Just the Facts and what they planned to do until the issue was resolved.
