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Re:AMD to Nvidia: prove it, don’t just say it by bryanlarsen on Sunday March 27, 2011 @08:58AM (#2374873)
Putting it that baldly is very unfair to AMD.

- They both widely "cheat" on games. If Game A asks for X, the driver returns Y. Usually this improves the user experience, but sometimes it is done more for benchmarkship.

- They both heavily optimize for benchmarks.

- In one case, AMD crossed the lean and their optimization did not return identical results as non-optimized.

Whether or not AMD did this deliberately is up for debate. If you've ever had to optimize something, you know how easy it is to screw up and return stale cache results or screw up in some other way.

Yes, AMD deserved to get slapped for their mistake, but I don't think one incidence is evidence of a culture any worse than NVidia's.

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Re:AMD to Nvidia: prove it, don’t just say it by viraptor on Sunday March 27, 2011 @10:56AM (#2375089)
Ah, don't get me wrong, I did not mean to say nvidia is any better. I was just amused that both companies say "we're the best", both are known to have a "creative" approach to benchmarking and one of them sets a challenge with "prove you're the best with benchmarks".
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