Comments on: Windows out-WoWs OS X http://www.p2pnet.net/story/8576 p2pnet.net - reader powered Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:11:09 -0300 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/8576/comment-page-1#comment-38913 Reader's Write Fri, 21 Apr 2006 17:11:48 +0000 #comment-38913 This large difference in preformance on the exact same hardware is interesting in light of the fact that video card manufactorers refuse to tell anyone how to use the hardware they produce. Video card manufacturers are not trustworthy, they have been caught cheating time and again. Producing incorrect images in order to get better preformance stats, detecting the software that's running in order to do the former, disabling unstable features only during WHQL certification, etc... Here's a smatering of supportting links from a google search: Detecting the exe name and other cheating, how primitive. http://techreport.com/etc/2003q2/3dmurk03/ A microsoft employee says they not only cheat benchmarks, but WHQL bug testing as well. http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2004/03/05/84469.aspx cheating on 3dmark (couldn't linkify, cut and paste) http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,3973,1105259,00.asp I predict that if anyone leaked the source to the drivers of either of the two major players' offerings, we'd be seing revelation after revelation of dubious application specific optimizations (cheating). This large difference in preformance on the exact same hardware is interesting in light of the fact that video card manufactorers refuse to tell anyone how to use the hardware they produce.

Video card manufacturers are not trustworthy, they have been caught cheating time and again. Producing incorrect images in order to get better preformance stats, detecting the software that’s running in order to do the former, disabling unstable features only during WHQL certification, etc…

Here’s a smatering of supportting links from a google search:

Detecting the exe name and other cheating, how primitive.
http://techreport.com/etc/2003q2/3dmurk03/

A microsoft employee says they not only cheat benchmarks, but WHQL bug testing as well.
http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2004/03/05/84469.aspx

cheating on 3dmark (couldn’t linkify, cut and paste)
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,3973,1105259,00.asp

I predict that if anyone leaked the source to the drivers of either of the two major players’ offerings, we’d be seing revelation after revelation of dubious application specific optimizations (cheating).

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