3DMark06 Beta

[jim1976]

Originally posted by: Acanthus
if they still limit it to 1024x768 for default, i consider futuremark a dead company.

They don't limit it to 10x7. Just the free version

 

[fliguy84]

there's hardly any game now that looks as good as 3dmark03's game4 test and then there's 3dmark06? :Q

 

[blurredvision]

Originally posted by: Jeff7181

I could care less if people give a "rat's ass" if the next gen benchmarking program won't work on last gen hardware. I'm just explaining the purpose of the program, which is often overlooked when people start badmouthing it.

The phrase is "couldn't care less."

I'm not badmouthing the program, I'm making fun of the morons who are disappointed that it won't run on old hardware.

I'll assume that once you start correcting my grammar, you now see my point. And just for your sake, I could care less, meaning it's not that big of a deal to me, I'm just trying to prove a point. Don't try to put words into my post.

Originally posted by: Acanthus
if they still limit it to 1024x768 for default, i consider futuremark a dead company.

This is part of my argument in this post. It's not a game, it's a benchmarking program. I will concede that FutureMark does try to push the program's use by sprucing up the graphics, which causes most of this confusion, but then it wouldn't be as popular as it is now. A program like 3DMark lives and dies on the amount of benchmarks entered into it's system.

 

[Acanthus]

Originally posted by: jim1976

Originally posted by: Acanthus
if they still limit it to 1024x768 for default, i consider futuremark a dead company.

They don't limit it to 10x7. Just the free version

for default.

 

[Acanthus]

Originally posted by: blurredvision

Originally posted by: Jeff7181

I could care less if people give a "rat's ass" if the next gen benchmarking program won't work on last gen hardware. I'm just explaining the purpose of the program, which is often overlooked when people start badmouthing it.

The phrase is "couldn't care less."

I'm not badmouthing the program, I'm making fun of the morons who are disappointed that it won't run on old hardware.

I'll assume that once you start correcting my grammar, you now see my point. And just for your sake, I could care less, meaning it's not that big of a deal to me, I'm just trying to prove a point. Don't try to put words into my post.

Originally posted by: Acanthus
if they still limit it to 1024x768 for default, i consider futuremark a dead company.

This is part of my argument in this post. It's not a game, it's a benchmarking program. I will concede that FutureMark does try to push the program's use by sprucing up the graphics, which causes most of this confusion, but then it wouldn't be as popular as it is now. A program like 3DMark lives and dies on the amount of benchmarks entered into it's system.

Its a benchmarking program that supposed to measure performance.

If youre cpu limited (pretty much any SLI system) youre not getting anywhere near accurate numbers.

 

[jim1976]

Originally posted by: Acanthus

Originally posted by: jim1976

Originally posted by: Acanthus
if they still limit it to 1024x768 for default, i consider futuremark a dead company.

They don't limit it to 10x7. Just the free version

for default.

It depends on how you look at it.. Does 3dmock measure real world gaming performance? No. So given the fact that it is a vastly gpu limited synthetic benchmark, who cares if the default benchmark resolution is 10x7 or 16x12? It's crap anyway

Originally posted by: Acanthus

Its a benchmarking program that supposed to measure performance.

If youre cpu limited (pretty much any SLI system) youre not getting anywhere near accurate numbers.

But the point is that no matter what resolution you'll use in 3dmark results will not depict real world gamind numbers. They are far from being accurate.As I said we all now how gpu limited is the 3dmock and how little importance the cpu plays in comparison to core/mem bumps of the gpu. You have to bump the gpu to astronomical clockspeeds to see important in scoring? And that difference is nowhere near real gaming world importance of cpu,even at gpu limited resolutions.