Unwinder, the guy who makes Rivatuner has found a list of 50+ aplication detection mechanisms in Nvidia drivers, most of these affect the nature test in 3DMark2001SE.
That means Nvidia cheated severly in benchmarks used in Tom's VGA charts, all of the reviews at [H], all of Anands reviews, etc. This dates all the way back to the Radeon 8500 debut days. The story broke at B3D, but the site is down due to high traffic <A HREF="http://www.beyond3d.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6377" target="_new">http://www.beyond3d.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6377</A> You can read much about the news in the [H] forums also...
<A HREF="http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?s=611b41e242c424a0b6382e023009508a&threadid=624249" target="_new">http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?s=611b41e242c424a0b6382e023009508a&threadid=624249</A>
ATi lovers, the day is OURS!
3DMark 03 = 4,101
<A HREF="http://service.futuremark.com/compare?2k3=775464" target="_new">http://service.futuremark.com/compare?2k3=775464</A>
<font color=red>AthlonXP 2100+/Radeon 9500Pro</font color=red>
<font color=red>120% Myself!</font color=red>
That means Nvidia cheated severly in benchmarks used in Tom's VGA charts, all of the reviews at [H], all of Anands reviews, etc. This dates all the way back to the Radeon 8500 debut days. The story broke at B3D, but the site is down due to high traffic <A HREF="http://www.beyond3d.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6377" target="_new">http://www.beyond3d.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6377</A> You can read much about the news in the [H] forums also...
<A HREF="http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?s=611b41e242c424a0b6382e023009508a&threadid=624249" target="_new">http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?s=611b41e242c424a0b6382e023009508a&threadid=624249</A>
ATi lovers, the day is OURS!
3DMark 03 = 4,101
<A HREF="http://service.futuremark.com/compare?2k3=775464" target="_new">http://service.futuremark.com/compare?2k3=775464</A>
<font color=red>AthlonXP 2100+/Radeon 9500Pro</font color=red>
<font color=red>120% Myself!</font color=red>