Il y a des retournements de situation où il faut tout de même savoir rester digne… Mais pour le moment, Nvidia semble chercher à fuir la douleur des scores du 3DMark 2003. Je cite, en VO, ce que rapportent les braves gens de Gamespot :
« Nvidia has contacted us to say that it doesn’t support the use of 3DMark 2003 as a primary benchmark in the evaluation of graphics cards, as the company believes the benchmark doesn’t represent how current games are being designed. Specifically, Nvidia contends that the first test is an unrealistically simple scene that’s primarily single-textured, that the stencil shadows in the second and third tests are rendered using an inefficient method that’s extremely bottlenecked at the vertex engine, and that many of the pixel shaders use specific elements of DX8 that are promoted by ATI but aren’t common in current games. »
En gros, Nvidia critique à mort le 3DMark2003. Sauf que la réponse des gars de FutureMark est assez claire…
« We’ve been working for the last 18 months to make 3DMark 2003 an accurate and objective benchmark. Nvidia was one of our beta members until December, and it’s not our place to comment on why they’ve decided to withdraw from the program. After working on the project for almost two years with all the leading manufacturers, we do strongly believe that 3DMark 2003 is an accurate representation of game performance for modern 3D accelerators. »
Pour les anglophobes, il est dit que Nvidia a travaillé jusqu’à décembre dernier avec eux et s’est retiré du programme sans trop d’explications.
Bizarre… Vous avez dit bizarre ? Comme c’est bizarre… 
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