Hehe I find this funny, as Kyle at [H]ardOCP jumps in to defend Nvidia! As most of you know we at Warp2 get nothing from Nvidia, ATI or any other hardware manufacturer.
So I'll say this: if Nvidia, or ATI for that matter, have the fastest graphics card they would be showing you a round up of benchmarks from the latest games. (One thing that bugs me, Mr Games Developer: how about adding some benchmark tools with your games?) And not just 3DMark scores, as they would want to know what you are benchmarking and doing with there cards even before they send them to you for review! Now over to Kyle.
Two days after Extremetech was not given the opportunity to benchmark DOOM3, they come out swinging heavy charges of Nvidia intentionally inflating benchmark scores in 3DMark03. What is interesting here is that Extremetech uses tools not at Nvidia's disposal to uncover the reason behind the score inflations.
These tools are not "given" to Nvidia anymore as they will not pay the tens of thousands of dollars required to be on the "beta program" for 3DMark "membership".
Rancho*: Well I wonder how Beyond3D.com managed to pay the "tens of thousands" to be a beta program member then. But anyway...
ExtremeTech: Round 1
So I'll say this: if Nvidia, or ATI for that matter, have the fastest graphics card they would be showing you a round up of benchmarks from the latest games. (One thing that bugs me, Mr Games Developer: how about adding some benchmark tools with your games?) And not just 3DMark scores, as they would want to know what you are benchmarking and doing with there cards even before they send them to you for review! Now over to Kyle.
Two days after Extremetech was not given the opportunity to benchmark DOOM3, they come out swinging heavy charges of Nvidia intentionally inflating benchmark scores in 3DMark03. What is interesting here is that Extremetech uses tools not at Nvidia's disposal to uncover the reason behind the score inflations.
These tools are not "given" to Nvidia anymore as they will not pay the tens of thousands of dollars required to be on the "beta program" for 3DMark "membership".
Rancho*: Well I wonder how Beyond3D.com managed to pay the "tens of thousands" to be a beta program member then. But anyway...
ExtremeTech: Round 1
