Futuremark developing 3DMark DirectX 11 version

[Calmatory]

Maybe, but pre Vantage was a MUCH fairer, hardware agnostic approach to measuring performance IMO. There simply MUST MUST MUST be a NEUTRAL party to measure performance and features in the graphics industry, just like SPEC is in the cpu server industry. Just look at the cpu consumer sector; there is utter chaos, and no standard really in measuring performance and features, or in mobile for measure performance and especially battery life. It's a hodge podge of benchmark utilities slapped together to benefit whichever side of the vendor fence the reviewer falls on. And people are still using SuperPi to gauge a cpu's performance? My god that useless thing uses legacy code from the 90's!

As a programmer who has some serious interest at writing (CPU) benchmarks, I can only say that code A with compiler X on platform Y will just be faster on vendor Z CPU. This without ANY bias towards CPU vendor. A good example would be when I wrote sorting benchmarks; mt Celeron M @ 1.6 GHz was WAY faster at Bubble sort, Insertion sort and Selection sort than my brothers A64(Windsor) @ 2.4 GHz. Quicksort was actually slower on my Celeron. I bet that you would blame me for being Intel biased with the code, but no. Just generic C with GCC 4.2.0(Mingw for Windows, A64).

Though, I didn't check the compiler generated code to verify that the code was exact same(E.g. no SSE2 optimizations).

What I mean, is that two pieces of code can run with BIG performance differences, the benchmark author isn't biased when writing such code, IF the code between CPU vendors is identical. However, if in real world the executables are vendor-optimized, should the benchmarks be too?

Though, I'd agree with the statement that there should be some kind of a standard of CPU benchmarking. But what kind of? It will be somewhat biased(according to people) to either CPU vendor due to the nature of CPU.

2001 was great. 03 was OK but slipping. Since then 3DMark is just crap. I'll play Crysis if i want eye candy.

Honestly, what the F***?!