Nvidia Driver Cheats Editorial

[Jason]

Hardware Analysis has their take on Nvidia's driver "optimizations". Its unfortunate that every time Nvidia releases a new product this occurs. Good product, bad product, or in the middle, it presents a doubt over the quality and actual performance of the product.

I'm sure you've read reports around the web about Nvidia allegedly cheating with their yet to be released 60.72 build drivers. These drivers were sent out to journalists evaluating the new GeForce 6800 Ultra and the NV4x architecture. Just two short weeks after the first reviews were posted one website published a lengthy article discussing image quality and how some frames rendered by the new GeForce showed differences from the same frames rendered on ATi hardware. So is this the proverbial smoking gun we're looking at, is Nvidia indeed making shortcuts to boost the performance of their new architecture or is something else going on here?

[StinkyMojo]

heh....funny

[Jason425]

sad that they have to cheat...

[Jason]

Very true,but if you read the article can you really call it cheating. Seems that ATI and Nvidia do the same thing, just different takes on how to render an image.

Jury's still out.

[StinkyMojo]

Yeah.. I remember ATI got slammed too along with nVidia back when 3dmark2k3 was released for "optimizations".

[Jason425]

except nvidia does it over and over again.. ati only got caught once

[StinkyMojo]

Meh.. Im just leaning back here and watching them duke it own.. Whoever wins the benchmarks wars for PCI-Express, I'm just gonna choose that card.. I really don't care if its ATI, nVidia, s3.. Not really a fanboy when it comes to GPU's.

[Jason425]

duke it own

oh really...


anyway, s3 has no chance and should go die, nvidia should play by the rules and ati should stop being snotty...

[Jason]

First off I like rooting for the underdog, sometimes they end up making the superior product (AMD).

Secondly the only reason people think Nvidia doesnt play by the rules is because others say so, If you think ATI isisnt or hasnt tried the same thing, then your wrong.

Thirdly ATI has every reason to be snooty, they make the best product on the planet, for a lower cost than most, while producing better image quality than most.

The jury is out on IF and HOW much better the 6800Ultra will be and if they really are cheating. Unless your a vid guru I tend to try educating myself before I hack into a product.

My personal Opinion: S3 has yet to produce anything worth buying that was competitive in performance. Nvidia should stop trying to cheat the benchmarks and their consumers, and ATI is starting to act holier than thou.

But those are just my opinions.

ATI is holier than thou...They are superior. I've quit Nvidia after going through 2 cards in 4 months, I've had my card for over a year now and I'm still happy.