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Am I the only one that HATES 3dmark???

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I mean as a stability tester, it's fine. But this thing is such a crock of crap where actual gameplay is concerned, that it isnt even funny! I would personally rather do a timedemo of actual gameplay anyday.

Anyone agree? Disagree?
 
Yeah, I am with you, because 3DMark seems skewed towards the special functions of Nvidia's cards, and those aren't that pertinent in most games today.

Although it looks damm cool.
 
That benchmark uses actual game engines, like MaxFX of MaxPayne. How can it possibly be "optimized" for any videocard? Some nVidia videocards can't even run some of the tests (hardware bumpmapping of some sort).

Bapco benchmark really is geared towards Intel processors, but 3dMark is neutral..
 
Besides, half of that program is a beautiful demo, and that's the reason some people use the program.
 
3D Mark is an excellent bench. If you're using it to compare systems with different videocards you're missing the point, it's worth is using it to compare systems with the same card. Of course a GF3 is going to score extremely high, as it's the only current card that fully supports all tests. That doesn't mean every system with a GF3 is supposed to perform better than another system with a different card in an average game, but it probably will on a game with a feature set similar to 3D Mark.

It's true value is finding large or small performance issues on your system. If you're scoring well below average as compared to a similar system with the same card, then there is a problem somewhere. It may not show up in Quake 3 framerate, or in game x, y, or z...but it will eventually show up somewhere.
 
No, what I am saying is that some things use T&L I think, and that inflates score, and games are just starting to include that feature set.
 
Ok, tell me this. In what game will a lower scored card perform better in then one that got a higher score in 3dmark? In my experience the higher score always equals better gaming performace in the games i play.
 
it's fine to me...it's free, it benchmarks, and it looks good - what more could u ask for!

use it solely for determing the relative performance increase of tweaking your own system....
i mean, are people really using it otherwise?
 
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