3DMark 2003 Released
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Nvidia still doesn't like 3DMark 2003?
Nvidia has contacted Gamespot to say that it doesn't support the use of 3DMark 2003 as a primary benchmark in the evaluation of graphics cards, as the company believes the benchmark doesn't represent how current games are being designed. Specifically, Nvidia contends that the first test is an unrealistically simple scene that's primarily single-textured, that the stencil shadows in the second and third tests are rendered using an inefficient method that's extremely bottlenecked at the vertex engine, and that many of the pixel shaders use specific elements of DX8 that are promoted by ATI but aren't common in current games.
In response to Nvidia's statements, Futuremark's Aki Jarvilehto said, "We've been working for the last 18 months to make 3DMark 2003 an accurate and objective benchmark. Nvidia was one of our beta members until December, and it's not our place to comment on why they've decided to withdraw from the program. After working on the project for almost two years with all the leading manufacturers, we do strongly believe that 3DMark 2003 is an accurate representation of game performance for modern 3D accelerators."
In any case, 3DMark 2003 offers some tech demos that use some of the advanced graphics technology that's on its way for future PC games.
Nvidia has contacted Gamespot to say that it doesn't support the use of 3DMark 2003 as a primary benchmark in the evaluation of graphics cards, as the company believes the benchmark doesn't represent how current games are being designed. Specifically, Nvidia contends that the first test is an unrealistically simple scene that's primarily single-textured, that the stencil shadows in the second and third tests are rendered using an inefficient method that's extremely bottlenecked at the vertex engine, and that many of the pixel shaders use specific elements of DX8 that are promoted by ATI but aren't common in current games.
In response to Nvidia's statements, Futuremark's Aki Jarvilehto said, "We've been working for the last 18 months to make 3DMark 2003 an accurate and objective benchmark. Nvidia was one of our beta members until December, and it's not our place to comment on why they've decided to withdraw from the program. After working on the project for almost two years with all the leading manufacturers, we do strongly believe that 3DMark 2003 is an accurate representation of game performance for modern 3D accelerators."
In any case, 3DMark 2003 offers some tech demos that use some of the advanced graphics technology that's on its way for future PC games.
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Interesting reading
http://www.hardocp.com/article.html?art=NDMw
http://discuss.futuremark.com/forum/...=5&o=0&fpart=1
3DM01 was a useful system tweaking benchmark, the new one seems to be so dependant on the graphics card it's useless in the real world unless you have a suit of benchmarks to run on.
http://www.hardocp.com/article.html?art=NDMw
http://discuss.futuremark.com/forum/...=5&o=0&fpart=1
3DM01 was a useful system tweaking benchmark, the new one seems to be so dependant on the graphics card it's useless in the real world unless you have a suit of benchmarks to run on.
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Running with Cat 3.0's with no tweaking and only a very slight overclock of fsb (as I usually run it),AMD 2000 XP @ 1750/140, Saphire ATI 9700 Pro (standard clock/mem speed) and 512 Meg Corsair XMS2700 @ CAS 2 and 1:1.
Might try it with Cat 3.0 a's next then clock the 9700.
Deffo seems to lurv 9700's though
Edited to say this was with Asus A7V333 Mobo
[Edited by Jye_0 - 2/13/2003 6:09:07 PM]
Running with Cat 3.0's with no tweaking and only a very slight overclock of fsb (as I usually run it),AMD 2000 XP @ 1750/140, Saphire ATI 9700 Pro (standard clock/mem speed) and 512 Meg Corsair XMS2700 @ CAS 2 and 1:1.
Might try it with Cat 3.0 a's next then clock the 9700.
Deffo seems to lurv 9700's though
Edited to say this was with Asus A7V333 Mobo
[Edited by Jye_0 - 2/13/2003 6:09:07 PM]
It seems that I'm kicking Super_Si's **** on this!!! 
1771
P4 2.4Ghz
512Mb PC2700 DDR RAM
Ti4200 128Mb 8xAGP
Running Windows XP Professional
Looks like I *need* a Radeon 9700 Pro as well!!!
1771
P4 2.4Ghz
512Mb PC2700 DDR RAM
Ti4200 128Mb 8xAGP
Running Windows XP Professional
Looks like I *need* a Radeon 9700 Pro as well!!!
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