2007-05-25

New DX10 Benchmarks Do More Bad than Good

Well, it's Friday before Memorial Day Weekend. While everybody else here at my work get to take off at 2pm, I have to wait for my normal train at 4pm. And with the heat restrictions today, I'll be an extra half hour getting home. Ah, well. More time to nap on the train, and more time to peruse the net at work. Speaking of which, here's a tidbit from Slashdot on Wednesday:
An interesting editorial over at PC Perspective looks at the changing status between modern game developers and companies like AMD and NVIDIA that depend on their work to show off their products. Recently, both AMD and NVIDIA separately helped in releasing DX10 benchmarks based on upcoming games that show the other hardware vendor in a negative light. But what went on behind the scenes? Can any collaboration these companies use actually be trusted by reviewers and the public to base a purchasing decision on? The author thinks the one source of resolution to this is have honest game developers take a stance for the gamer.


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