3DMark Vantage Review Thread

[saaya]

hmmmm idk...
they should finally make up their mind if they want 3dmark to be a 3d benchmark or a cpu benchmark or a system benchmark.
Pcmark is supposed to be the system benchmark, so they should split 3dmark into a REAL 3d benchmark and maybe launch some new CPU only benchmark.

all this cpu dependency in their last 3dmark series really annoys me...
there isnt a single game that depends that heavily on the cpu... and yes, maybe in some years there will be games that require that much cpu power, but thats not the point of 3dmark. the whole point of 3dmark was to show how gpus can handle future games in the next 1-2 years and how well they can handle the new techniques used in rendering.

2k5 was already off, 2k6 was even more off... i pray that vantage isnt even worse...

but to me it looks like they sold out...
intel wants the bench to show off their quads even tho nobody needs that much processing power, microsoft wants to show of vista even tho nobody likes the new features and performance sucks...