A 3dM Vantage fix came out from ATI in April that equalized the playing field m8. Please look it up.Originally Posted by AliG
Secondly, using 3D Mark Vantage to decide which card is better is about as effective as throwing both off of a 10-storey building and seeing which one still works X_X
Only For People Who Believe 3d Mark Vantage is actually useful right now, others please go to next post
Please understand this. 3D Mark 06, 05 and 03 had to go through 2-3 revisions before we could trust their consistency, and be able to translate marks from one benchmark to another.
Right now, 3D Mark Vantage is in its initial stages, and Futuremark will be trying fix glitches and anomalies in the benchmark because it has just launched and they have JUST started to get feedback on their benchmark. It is far from being an end product (this is why beta releases are so useful) and we have no idea with any form of certainty how a Vantage mark translates into a 3d 06 mark and back, not to mention that the XIPs and XLs are still trying to find out what particular attributes (core clock, memory clock, CPU cache, TMUs, ROPs, Shaders, Memory bandwith, bus size, etc etc) provide higher marks and which have minimal effects on the benchmark.
My biggest complaint is the lack of proper CPU integration (the CPU mark accounts for less than 15% of the total mark) which gives a mark that is significantly different than what would be seen on average in today's games. (I've cited this as the reason the Phenom is more competitive in 3dMV but one benchmark cannot justify poor performance elsewhere).
If benchmarks will decide this, it will be 3d06, 05, 03 and 01 that people will be waiting for, not 3dMV numbers when we know well that a second rev could come at any time and make all previous records useless (as it has happened with every new 3dmark revision).
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