For those who did not yet see it, X-Bit Labs have the whole document online which nVidia put together critizising 3DMark 2003 for being taken as a benchmark tool for todays games. Here's the link.
"3DMark03 has combined some pretty artwork into a set of four nice demo scenes. But, these scenes are so distant from real game applications that 3DMark03 just doesn’t make it as a benchmark. Lacking any similarity to actual games, it misrepresents the gaming experience, and doesn’t arm the consumer with the right information to make a purchase decision. It also forces hardware vendors to waste valuable engineering resources focusing on artificially fabricated cases that will never benefit real games. In the end, the consumer loses."
Posted by ParaKnowYa at February 14, 2003 04:16 AMHah. The biter bit.
Posted by: Stoney on February 15, 2003 09:35 PM