Nvidia cheats on 3DMark with 177.39 drivers

[Uber_Tiny]

WARNING: theinquirer.net post - Take this with a grain of salt. *rolls eyes*

Different workload, let's just pretend it's legit


By Charlie Demerjian: Monday, 23 June 2008, 7:12 PM

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NVIDIA IS VOILATING Futuremark rules with the latest PhysX drivers, and doing it in the usual sleazy way. The rules are simple, violating them isn't a trick, and doing so in order to pump up your numbers is the height of unethical behavior.


Well no, it isn't the height, this is, but calling Nvidia on unethical behavior is what you might deem a target-rich environment. That said, the company's behavior this time could be done in an ethical way, but it chose not to. The explanation needs a little background though, so bear with us.
3DMark Vantage has four major components, two CPU and two GPU. One of the CPU subtests is a physics-based test. The physics test is based on the Ageia PhysX API, a fairly widespread API in use by a large number of games. Between the time that 3DMark Vantage development was started and the time it was released, Nvidia bought Ageia.

The rest is here

[m3talc0re]

Yeah, some of the comments at the end of the article pretty much sums up the bullshitness of this..