doom 3 benchies at [H]

[vshah]

thought some of you might like to take a look at this

http://www2.hardocp.com/article.html?art=NjQy


enjoy...

 

[jfall]

had a feeling Nvidia would pull ahead in Doom3, would be interested in seeing HL2 benches with similiar systems

 

[vshah]

just fyi, these are tests that ID conducted, not hardocp, hard is just publishing the numbers

-Vivan

 

[Allio]

'As of this afternoon we were playing DOOM 3 on a 1.5GHz Pentium 4 box with a GeForce 4 MX440 video card and having a surprisingly good gaming experience.''

Booyah. Knew that card was a good investment.

 

[Pocatello]

How the heck could anyone get a hand on a GF 6800 Ultra, besides Nvidia?

 

[TheBoyBlunder]

Interesting...I figured ID Software wasn't dumb enough to write doom 3 for only the most expensive cards, but I didn't think Nvidia's second level card would beat ATI's first level card..

 

[ed21x]

Originally posted by: vshah
just fyi, these are tests that ID conducted, not hardocp, hard is just publishing the numbers

-Vivan

not that i don't believe you, but where does it state this in the review? I'm not quite as familiar with the reliability to HardOCP, so i'd take this article with a grain of salt unless it was actually ID that carried out these tests.

 

[vshah]

Originally posted by: ed21x

Originally posted by: vshah
just fyi, these are tests that ID conducted, not hardocp, hard is just publishing the numbers

-Vivan

not that i don't believe you, but where does it state this in the review? I'm not quite as familiar with the reliability to HardOCP, so i'd take this article with a grain of salt unless it was actually ID that carried out these tests.

Today we are sharing with you framerate data that was collected at the id Software offices in Mesquite, Texas. Both ATI and NVIDIA were present for the testing and brought their latest driver sets. While an extensive amount of data was taken, what we want to focus on is the high end video cards that are currently making their way to market. That means we will be showing you frames per second rates taken using the DOOM 3 timedemo "demo1" that will be included in your boxed copy of DOOM 3. The version of the game used to test is the same version you will be loading onto your own computer.

things like "collected" and "taken" instead of "we took" implies that ID controlled the benchmarking....also carmack was there etc. makes me thing that numbers were run, and then given to the sites to publish.

-Vivan