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Originally posted by Aleksei (St)
but it should test the system more generally like the cpu and other things on the machine other than the video card
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Heh, it's called
3DMark for a reason, you know. It's designed to specifically test DirectX capabilities of 3D accelerators. If you want a benchmark for determining overall system performance then get PCMark. The only reason it's called a "gamer's benchmark" is because DirectX is used almost exclusively for games. Of course most games have vendor-specific optimizations or happen to be too CPU-bound so 3DMark cannot be anything of a representative of actual games, but if you were to develop an unbiased, pure DX benchmark what else would you do?
Nvidia's just a sour loser in my estimation. They just didn't like how the original GeForce FX performed on the benchmark and how well the Radeon did. But I bet they were very happy when 3DMark2K1 came out, as it heavily favoured DX8 cards (to which the GeForce 3 was the only one then).
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