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3DMark Vantage: Is NVidia cheating?

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Nvidia is supposed to violate the rules of 3DMark Vantage by using their PhysX to improve the CPU score.
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Published: 529 days 23 hours ago | News | PC | Tech
 
 

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Alexander Roy - 530 days 1 hour ago
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Oh noes, somebody makes hardware that you can use in a benchmark - that is completely unrelated to the real performance in games - to have more points a.k.a. a bigger e-pen's! Call the police!
PhysX was made to ease the load on CPUs when it has to do physics, now some people complain because it does it and is good at it?? That's gold.
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JoelR - 530 days ago
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actually they are complaining since it is using an off card cpu to boost GPU performance. If the physX cpu was on the card then it would not be cheating.
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highps3 - 529 days 23 hours ago
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1.2 - 3D Vantage is pretty much garbage anyway... Great job at ruining a great thing
As far as the scores, who cares. ATI screwed themselves spending so much time on the 360 chip, they got left behind awhile back. Frankly there really isnt much reason to go with ATI other than brand loyalty.
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THE_BATTLERAGER - 529 days 23 hours ago
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1.3 - Wow @ highps3
Go and look at the HD4870 review. NOW. You say there is no reason to go ATI? think again. I was thinking of buying the GT260, not anymore.
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The Phantom Agree - 529 days 22 hours ago
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Phantom Agree Strikes Again

Bubbles and Agrees for all of you
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y0haN - 529 days 22 hours ago
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The driver is going to be using the card's onboard PPU to do PhysX calculations. It's not off-GPU.
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donator - 529 days 22 hours ago
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I think Nvidia got caught before doing something similar with 3DMark in the past.
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Alexander Roy - 529 days 22 hours ago
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LOL@ Phantom Agree, now that was something I never expected to happen! Thanks, have a bubble yourself.
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THE_BATTLERAGER - 529 days 21 hours ago
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I give an agree to Phantom Agree? Rift in the space-time continuum
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NRG - 529 days 21 hours ago
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I didn't look up the rules myself but the article apparently quotes this from them:

"GPU make, type or driver version may not have a significant effect on the results of either of the CPU tests"

Sounds like a warning to those hoping to get boosts on their scores through drivers. Not to ATI & nVidia to not produce ground breaking drivers.

The only way I see it as cheating is if the PhysX processing being used on the card is doing nothing but up the CPU score. Even then, it's offloading work for the CPU, which is what it's designed to do. 3Dmark has always supposed to help people get a feel for what their real-world computer performance is compared to others, and if the on-board PhysX for the G92s really are helping the actual fps in the tests, I don't see anything illegitimate here.
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