First of all I would like to point out that I regularly read THG every other day (when there are new articals posted) for the last couple of years. I have a lot of respect for the reviews which are published and greatful for the information.
But one thing has realy been bugging me lately and that is the anotation of the results data.
I read costantly that "Pentium 4 2GHz has thrashed the AMD 2000+" (made up quote) when if you just LOOK at the results you can see that the the difference is about 0.1%.
For instance in the Geforce 4 artical he states for the max payne benchmark:
"At 1600x1200, the GeForce4 Ti4600 achieved double the frame rate as ATI's RADEON 8500!"
When the Radeon 8500 scored 37.4 (*2 = 74.8) while the GeForce Ti4600 scored 63.3. That is NOT double, its 69% higher. (which is still an awful lot but ITS NOT DOUBLE)
And again:
"The 4600 runs twice as fast as the R8500 and Ti500"
25.1 *2 (or 26.7) is NOT, I REPEAT NOT 38.7!!!!!!!!!!!
This is not the only garbage: most reviews have at least one stupid statement in.
So instead of writing crap would THG PLEASE tell us WHAT the benchmark is showing about the card. i.e. If future direct 8 games are going to show significant impovement over other cards due to its ....
That would be intresting.
McEwin
Oh and percentage difference would also be a more useful comparason. (To give an Idea that the new GeForce 4 say runs about 60% faster than Radeon 8500 cards at Max Payne (whatever))
<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by McEwin on 02/07/02 07:20 AM.</EM></FONT></P>
But one thing has realy been bugging me lately and that is the anotation of the results data.
I read costantly that "Pentium 4 2GHz has thrashed the AMD 2000+" (made up quote) when if you just LOOK at the results you can see that the the difference is about 0.1%.
For instance in the Geforce 4 artical he states for the max payne benchmark:
"At 1600x1200, the GeForce4 Ti4600 achieved double the frame rate as ATI's RADEON 8500!"
When the Radeon 8500 scored 37.4 (*2 = 74.8) while the GeForce Ti4600 scored 63.3. That is NOT double, its 69% higher. (which is still an awful lot but ITS NOT DOUBLE)
And again:
"The 4600 runs twice as fast as the R8500 and Ti500"
25.1 *2 (or 26.7) is NOT, I REPEAT NOT 38.7!!!!!!!!!!!
This is not the only garbage: most reviews have at least one stupid statement in.
So instead of writing crap would THG PLEASE tell us WHAT the benchmark is showing about the card. i.e. If future direct 8 games are going to show significant impovement over other cards due to its ....
That would be intresting.
McEwin
Oh and percentage difference would also be a more useful comparason. (To give an Idea that the new GeForce 4 say runs about 60% faster than Radeon 8500 cards at Max Payne (whatever))
<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by McEwin on 02/07/02 07:20 AM.</EM></FONT></P>
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