UPDATE:
Well look at this, Futuremark is eating its own words. They drop the aligations of the nVidoe cheat, "Futuremark now states that Nvidia's driver design is an application-specific optimization and not a cheat," said Futuremark in a statement.
ORIGINAL POSTED 05/28/03:
Full story from GameSpot. This is pretty funny since the ATI 9700 and 9800 still do better in most tests then the nVidia GeForce FX 5800 and newer 5900. So the new 3DMark 03 patch curbs the "cheating" from the nVidia driver.
By Futuremark's measure, the performance of the Nvidia GeForce FX 5900 Ultra drops 24 percent with the patch, compared with a drop of less than 2 percent with ATI's Radeon 9800 Pro with the latest ATI drivers.I have personally always liked ATI a lot more. But the I am a Mac person and ATI has always been stronger on the Mac side. That is why when I chose my config for my PC I got the ATI 9700 Pro and I am glad I did. I wonder why nVidia would do such a thing. They must be feeling pressure from the ATI 9800 Pro's release as the 9700 bested the GeForce FX in many tests. Poor nVidia, not on top of performance anymore. Boo hoo.
Comments (1)
Of course, the patch download still states that it's a cheat-avoidance patch. ;-)
Incidentally, the 3DMark03 info page rules.
Posted by Laurence "GreenReaper" Parry | June 7, 2003 11:39 PM
Posted on June 7, 2003 23:39