A Question about AMD and Nvidia Driver Releases

[brybir]

So I was looking at the AMD press release on Catalyst 10.9 and see things like this:

- STALKER: Call of Pripyat Benchmark
- Performance increases up to 20% on ATI Radeon™ HD 5800 Series single and CrossFire™ configurations with Enhanced full dynamic lighting (DX11) and anti-aliasing enabled

So, my question is, does this literally mean the driver is increasing performance in the benchmark and not the game itself?

Ive seen this in Nvidia's drivers as well before where they appear to be optimizing benchmark scores instead of improving the game. Their was an article on Anand some time ago about Nvidia detecting demos and implementing quality degradations and other tricks to make their scores higher.

Should I not like this sort of thing, when it seems like they are pandering to make themselves look better in benchmarks so as to make reviews more favorable?

 

[happy medium]

I just check reviews over at "Alienbabletech", they show if the new driver is worth upgrading to or not.

http://alienbabeltech.com/main/?p=20291

They do a good job for both Nvidia and AMD.

 

[edplayer]

My guess is that it will improve in the actual game itself but they (AMD and Nvidia) will choose to point out the best example. Whether that be a benchmark, SLI/Crossfire or at a specific resolution.

 

[Caribbean Geek]

Alienbabletech LOLLL It reminds me of the journalism style used on Dailytech and The Inquirer like The maker of shoddy software Microsoft, $ony, DAAMIT and Firefox aka Fireferret ROFL

 

[Mem]

I just check reviews over at "Alienbabletech", they show if the new driver is worth upgrading to or not.

http://alienbabeltech.com/main/?p=20291

They do a good job for both Nvidia and AMD.

I don't need any website to tell me if a driver is good or bad,I normally just install them,so far 10.9s they are running great,btw I think bug fixes are more important then speed improvements,however if you get both great .

 

[brybir]

Alienbabletech LOLLL It reminds me of the journalism style used on Dailytech and The Inquirer like The maker of shoddy software Microsoft, $ony, DAAMIT and Firefox aka Fireferret ROFL

Just so you know one of the Anandtech SuperModerators on here is the writer of Alienbabletech.

Besides at least his webpage is more coherent than whatever it was that just typed above ~

 

[Caribbean Geek]

Just so you know one of the Anandtech SuperModerators on here is the writer of Alienbabletech.

Besides at least his webpage is more coherent than whatever it was that just typed above ~

Yeah, BFG10K and appoppin.