framvegis, ekki trolla
og svo svoldið tengt
The interesting thing here is both company’s reactions. ATi came out and publicly stated that it had optimised Game Test 4 of 3DMark03 and shuffled the instructions to better suit its architecture. Note that the scene was still rendered exactly how Futuremark had intended, the instructions were just moved around to suit their GPU and give them the slight boost which it had. However, despite it being a genuine optimisation, ATi still announced that it would remove this in the next release of their Catalyst drivers.
Nvidia, on the other hand, has to date done an excellent impression of a child got caught stealing from the cookie jar and sent into the corner of the room all the while yelling “Na na na na, I can’t hear you”. It instead chose to attack Futuremark over the issue, accusing them of a deliberate campaign of attempting to make their cards look bad in 3DMark03. Since Nvidia left Futuremark’s beta program at the end of last year under a cloud, it no longer has official access to the so-called developer version of 3DMark03. This allows the user to pause and fully rotate the camera in any given part of the test, which is how ExtremeTech originally discovered the problem in the first place.
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=9731<br><br>Hatred is the most poisonous human emotion. It blocks the capacity to empathise that lies at the heart of human association. It turns the object of the hatred into just that - an object. It robs the hater of his or her fundamental human quality - humanity. In so doing, it opens the door to the most callous and depraved acts that one human being can commit against another.