nVidia and Futuremark about to release a joint statement?

digitalwanderer · Jun 3, 2003, 12:07 AM

You can go check out the post at nVnews your ownselves, I'm still in shock.

Basically they're saying it'll be this:

Quote:

Originally posted by ricercar at nVnews
Hot off the wire and soon to appear in a news outlet near you:

Futuremark Statement

For the first time in 6 months, as a result of Futuremark's White Paper last Friday, Futuremark and NVIDIA have had detailed discussions regarding NVIDIA GPUs and Futuremark's 3DMark03 benchmark.

Futuremark now has a deeper understanding of the situation and NVIDIA's optimization strategy. In the light of this, Futuremark now states that NVIDIA's driver design is an application specific optimization and not a cheat .

The world of 3D Graphics has changed dramatically with the latest generation of highly programmable GPUs. Much like the world of CPUs, each GPU has a different architecture and a unique optimal code path. For example, Futuremark's PCMark2002 has different CPU test compilations for AMD's AthlonXP and Intel's Pentium4 CPUs.

3DMark03 is designed as an un-optimized DirectX test and it provides performance comparisons accordingly. It does not contain manufacturer specific optimized code paths. Because all modifications that change the workload in 3DMark03 are forbidden, we were obliged to update the product to eliminate the effect of optimizations identified in different drivers so that 3DMark03 continued to produce comparable results.

However, recent developments in the graphics industry and game development suggest that a different approach for game performance benchmarking might be needed, where manufacturer-specific code path optimization is directly in the code source. Futuremark will consider whether this approach is needed in its future benchmarks.

NVIDIA Statement

NVIDIA works closely with developers to optimize games for GeForceFX. These optimizations (including shader optimizations) are the result of the co-development process. This is the approach NVIDIA would have preferred also for 3DMark03.

Joint NVIDIA-Futuremark Statement

Both NVIDIA and Futuremark want to define clear rules with the industry about how benchmarks should be developed and how they should be used. We believe that common rules will prevent these types of unfortunate situations moving forward

digitalwanderer · Jun 3, 2003, 12:18 AM

FVCKING confirmation from FVCKING Kyle-nVidia-buttsuck himself.

To. Disgusted. For. Words.

~~shai~~ · Jun 3, 2003, 08:44 AM

whats wierd is that the ppl who checked the drivers to see if they were cheating
said it gave much lower quel so it makes me wonder

BWX · Jun 3, 2003, 09:00 AM

They cheated, optimizations work no matter where you look in the game "world"

CHEATS, on the other hand only surface when you are benchmarking on a "rail" in a benchmark and when you look away, the scene isn't rendered (correctly)- that is a DAMN CHEAT!!! Someone paid someone off-

If it smells like a cheat.......

Jun 3, 2003, 12:18 AM	Thread Starter #2
digitalwanderer Colour Commentator Join Date: May 2002 Location: Highland, IN USA Posts: 5,619 Rep Power: 0	FVCKING confirmation from FVCKING Kyle-nVidia-buttsuck himself. To. Disgusted. For. Words. __________________ WTF is up with the sigs?

Jun 3, 2003, 09:00 AM	#4
BWX unplugged Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: USNY Posts: 19,669 Rep Power: 110 System Specs	They cheated, optimizations work no matter where you look in the game "world" CHEATS, on the other hand only surface when you are benchmarking on a "rail" in a benchmark and when you look away, the scene isn't rendered (correctly)- that is a DAMN CHEAT!!! Someone paid someone off- If it smells like a cheat....... __________________

Jun 3, 2003, 08:44 AM	#3
~~shai~~ Banned Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 613 Rep Power: 0	whats wierd is that the ppl who checked the drivers to see if they were cheating said it gave much lower quel so it makes me wonder