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Futuremark Statement on NVIDIA and 3dMark 2003 - 7:07 pm EST - ben6
HardOCP has a statement from Futuremark on 3dmark 2003 and NVIDIA's apparent "cheating". Click the link below for the whole story. Here's a snippet:
Dear Member of the Press:
Following is a joint statement from Futuremark and NVIDIA relating to 3DMark03 and optimizations.
Futuremark Statement
For the first time in 6 months, as a result of Futuremark's White Paper on May 23rd, 2003, Futuremark and NVIDIA have had detailed discussions regarding NVIDIA GPUs and Futuremark's 3DMark03 benchmark.
Futuremark now has a deeper understanding of the situation and NVIDIA's optimization strategy. In the light of this, Futuremark now states that NVIDIA's driver design is an application specific optimization and not a cheat .
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I just read this at Rage3d.com That just blows my mind!