Quote Originally Posted by perkam View 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.
Regardless of the patch all scores from 1.0 to the latest patch of all 3DMarks were comparative – in other words if you run Vantage today, and within a year on a same hardware and the same drivers, but with say patch 1.5, you’ll get the same results!
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).
First of all the worst thing about 3DMark 06 and Vantage is integration of the CPU score in the finall number!
Second, try running Crysis in DX10 Very High setting in only SVGA resolution, and you’ll find out that Phenom is not a single fps behind competing CPU! Quite contrary