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Futuremark Q&A

by Maarten Goldstein, Nov 09, 2005 5:17am PST

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The guys at Beyond3D have posted a new Q&A with Nicklas Renqvist of Futuremark. Questions are focused on the next 3DMark benchmarking tool.

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3dmark is a pretty lightshow but next to useless when it comes to evaluating videocards. The companies will simply optimize for 3dmark and those optimizations will mean zilch when it comes to real games.

Since we play games, games are the only thing worth benchmarking. Getting 60 fps vs 90 fps means something, 12345 3dmarks means dick

Nov 09, 2005 9:14pm PST

3dmark is a pretty lightshow but next to useless when it comes to evaluating videocards. The companies wi... : Svperstarr

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GG from me looking at the 3DMark99 screenshots thinking wtf is this the new version? ohh right I see

Nov 09, 2005 12:00pm PST

GG from me looking at the 3DMark99 screenshots thinking wtf is this the new version? ohh right I see : shack_konto

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That screenshot of the next 3D mark is pretty astonishing, a full on city by a lake. It's a shame we're still not at the point where games look at good as the last 3D mark, though Oblivion is pretty darn close.

Nov 09, 2005 5:44am PST

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That screenshot of the next 3D mark is pretty astonishing, a full on city by a lake. It's a shame we're s... : node
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- There still aren't a lot of games that look even as good as 3dmark 2001, let alone 2005. I doubt we'll be... : mrflamey
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  I dunno the end of that Unreal Engine 3 video looked pretty awesome when the camera flew over the city. : Turd Ferguson
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    That's true. They're doing subsurface scattering with pixel shaders too (3D mark are) - I'm sure it's an ... : node
    - Ok, that shot is fucking impressive. But what impress me is the polycount. Over the last few years I ca : pillzer