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Futuremark Caught NVIDIA On Misleading Statement.

3DMark03 Scandal Continues

[05/27/2003 09:16 AM]
by Anton Shilov
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You may remember that NVIDIA did not comment on its cheats in drivers that allowed graphics cards based on certain GPUs from NVIDIA to score more in Futuremark’s 3DMark03, but accused the Finnish company in developing unfair benchmarks. The company also said that Futuremark asks for hundreds of thousands US Dollars to participate in its Beta Program. Well, Futuremark denied both allegations on Monday.

First of all, a Futuremark representative said that the company utilises the most-efficient shaders and rendering-patterns. Secondly, Aki Jarvilehto, Vice President Benchmark Products of Futuremark Corporation said over here that the minimum payment to join the Beta Program as a Beta Member is $5000 a year, not hundreds of thousands as NVIDIA Corporation claimed last week.

To tell you the truth, this is a very strange scandal fully shrouded in secrecy. Does someone have a background of this scandal between NVIDIA and Futuremark? You are welcome to e-mail me or leave a comment.

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Scandal between Nviida and Futuremark? Let's express this properly. This is not a scandal between the 2 companies. The scandal rests entirely with Nvidia and how they are misrepresenting the capabilities of their cards.

Futuremark has explained the cheats that Nvidia has been using. This is well documented and Nvidia has resorted to lies and slander.

One can only wonder whether they have used similar cheats in timedemos on other games to increase their benchmark scores (and so convince users their cards are the better buy).

Go over to Beyond3d.com if you haven't already.
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From what I understand, there are many different kinds of beta partners. The minimum to become a beta partner is $5,000, but don't expect much say in what goes on. ATI was a Strategic Beta Partner (I would assume nVidia was before dropping out) which may cost quite a bit more. But even if it costs $100,000, that is definately a small amount compared to what nVidia has spent on the NV3x, marketing, etc.
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