NVNews.net is all upset over ATI being number 1

[Strawberrymom]

posted over on NVnews.net's front page.

really funny that as always when ATI gets the awrds they're saying its all wrong and Nvidia should be number 1

PC World takes a look at the top 10 gaming cards. ATI's Radeon 8500 came out on top followed by a host of GeForce2 and GeForce3 based graphics cards.

MikeC: I blasted the editors of PC World about that article. Their benchmark suite is outdated and they don't cover major features such as what DirectX 8 brings to the table, antialiasing, and the Radeon's Smoothvision.

 

[Killrose]

What would you expect from a bunch of "Nvidiots" :Q

 

[NicColt]

>MikeC: I blasted the editors of PC World

LOL yea, coming from NV news.... of course they're Nvidiots

 

[AmdInside]

Well, the article does sound somewhat outdated. But PC World has always been a horrible place to go for video card reviews. I remember when I used to have a subcription to them back in the old TNT2/Voodoo/Rage days and their reviews were horrible. Their tests were outdated (Winbench 3d). I cant' believe they tested on a Pentium III 933 system. Most sites post reviews now on Windows XP with a Pentium 4 or AthlonXP processor and this site is testing with a Pentium III 933 and Windows Me. Not very characteristic of a major PC website. Not to take anything away from ATI since the Radeon 8500 is a great product but I will never judge a video card based on what PC World has to say. I go there for comparisons on monitors and that is all.

 

[rickn]

I dont think Mike's response has anything to do with nVidia, but the fact this is how they test



<< How We Test
We test graphics boards under Windows Millennium Edition. Our performance scores are based on tests that are evaluated on frame rate (50 percent) and image quality (50 percent). We use GT Interactive's Unreal Tournament, Id Software's Quake III Arena, Interplay's MDK2 Demo, Infogrames's Test Drive 6, and the Caligari TrueSpace 4.2 Benchmark for both performance and image-quality testing.

We test graphics boards in a Dell Dimension 4100 Series with a PIII-933 CPU and 128MB of PC133 SDRAM. To test each board we use drivers supplied by the vendor.

Overall rating is based on performance (65 percent), features (15 percent), price (10 percent), and support policies (10 percent). For all frame rates higher is better. Data based on tests designed and conducted by the PC World Test Center. All rights reserved
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I would never buy a piece of hardare based on PC World recommendation. I learned that lesson about 5 or 10 yrs ago

 

[Leon]

They are upset because PC World and their testing sucks