Vantage panned for lack of DX10.1
But hardware boys like it some
WITH THE LATEST 3D Mark now having been on virtual shelves for a day or so, the initial verdicts are rolling in on both the software itself and the graphics cards it tries to hard to accurately rank.
For those who want a comprehensive comparison of exactly how every card ranks up, there are a number of sites that have done just that for you. Hardspell has a feature with 22 GPUs and 32 CPUs in various combos, whilst Expreview manages to rank up 16 GPUs against each other.
The verdict appears universal: the 9800 GX2 is the fastest card, with the 3870 X2 not far behind.
Meanwhile, one question is on everybody's lips: why no DX10.1 features? Given that the latest 3D Mark is supposed to rank cards according to how they will perform in games titles in the future, surely incorporating the latest DirectX extensions would have made sense? Futuremark reps have commented on the situation, saying that they didn't have enough time with the extended API to be able to incorporate it - but we do find that a little hard to believe, especially given the cosy relationship the firm has in the Vole's hole (producing the gaming performance test for Vista, amongst other things). Readers are invited to draw their own conclusions about the winners and losers of DX10.1 inclusion or otherwise.
Rather than the anti-canned-benchmark sentiment of a year or so ago, when driver 'tweaking' was all the rage at GPU HQ, it seems that hardware websites are luke-warm about incorporating the latest software. Anandtech says that "We'll include it in some of our reviews as a baseline measurement", Legit Reviews proffers that "We plan to incorporate 3DMark Vantage into future articles", Hot Hardware parrots the exact same line, whilst PC Perspective is more enthusiastic, saying that "The addition of the 3DMark Vantage software into our collection of benchmarking tools is a welcome one".
Whatever happened to keeping it real? µ
Comments
Rubbish not worth installing.
The idea of 3D Mark is ridiculous. Testing how current hardware will fare on games that are not even made yet. By the time these games come out “enthusiasts” will already have new hardware. Why not just test your hardware on current games that you may actually play, or does that make too much sense? The graphics also look like crap now compared to what current hardware can do.You should also mention that it is not free anymore either. 7.99$ per copy. Who is stupid enough to pay for this steaming pile of crap? No one. That is why Futuremarks days are numbered, like anyone who coseys up too close to Microsoft.
Prove my point!
Since, they do have big pride and show off new Direct X 10 but see what happened here, thing not seem make any sense everytime when I read one state of art PC with three powerful videocard run Cyrsis and the frame cannot go higher. that still not make any sense either. What's heck going on with those game that Microsoft playing with us. huh?
ATI Hobbled in Vantage.
First BEST Price/Performance for Vista is FireGL v.3100 @ remarkable $35. its 44 fps in 3 gb stream games.FireGL won't test on Vantage.Next: Vantage does NOT support DX 10.1 or ?SM 4.0. This is incredible burden on ATI, whom has many DX 10.1 Cards out. This means any shorting designwise to get DX 10.1 in give less complete architecture of nvidia higher & False score.
SM 4.0 would be entire row of calculations added into total, so ATI is really being stumped by incomplete test.
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No longer futuremark, PASTmark more like it
So no DX10.1 tests, but they have tests for the now defunct PPU that even nVidia killed off for CUDA-GPU physics?Perhaps if they didn't waste time with the PPU they could've run a DX10.1 test like they originally said they were going to do.
That, and making people pay to run it more than once (if that with all the errors) make it obsolete and pointless out of the gate instead of after the first driver optimizations.... oh wait those came right out of the gate too.
Waste of bandwidth to download, and hopefully the beginning of the end of Bungholiomark madness.
over it
Futuremark is for the professional benchmarkers these days, most of which run nVidia. I suspect nVidia weighed heavily on Futuremark to ignore 10.1, as they don't have any 10.1 capable cards. It was fun to run '01 back in the day, but now it's rather old. NVidia (33% of BSODs under Vista) and ATI should just focus on driver support for games, not this rubbish anymore. Nobody cares except the same old boring guys at XS.