Video Card Benchmarking
Posted 10-19-07 at 11:07 PM by pauldovi
As I watch all this mass hysteria over the new Nvidia and ATI video cards, and the 15 news posts that come with each new rumor, I can't help but to question something.
We buy very expensive fancy video cards so that we can run the latest and greatest in gaming at maximum resolutions and full eye candy.
So why is it that we base the very purchase of our video cards on their performance in a benchmark at low resolution and absolutely no eye candy....
I see these benchmarks for the new 8800GT. "Amazing!", cry the comments, "It is as fast as the 8800Ultra!". Well isn't that something.
What they fail to realize is that these benchmarks are done at 1024 x 768 and 1280 x 1024 with no eye candy. Here the differences in the memory bus, size, and speed is not evident.
We buy very expensive fancy video cards so that we can run the latest and greatest in gaming at maximum resolutions and full eye candy.
So why is it that we base the very purchase of our video cards on their performance in a benchmark at low resolution and absolutely no eye candy....
I see these benchmarks for the new 8800GT. "Amazing!", cry the comments, "It is as fast as the 8800Ultra!". Well isn't that something.
What they fail to realize is that these benchmarks are done at 1024 x 768 and 1280 x 1024 with no eye candy. Here the differences in the memory bus, size, and speed is not evident.
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Fellow OCNer thlnk3r and I have been PMing each other lately, laughing about how persuasive the marketing departments of the hardware manufacturers can be if we let them exert their influence.
Good points made!Posted 10-20-07 at 01:01 AM by txtmstrjoe
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I totally agree
. That's why I post benchmarks from ExtremeTech.Posted 10-20-07 at 03:57 AM by SZayat
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People are sheep, sad to say. Maybe the people who read sites like this know better, but less knowledgable people can be herded into thinking whatever a good marketer wants them to think.Posted 10-22-07 at 09:24 PM by VulcanDragon
