Futuremark backs down on Nvidia cheat claims
News Benchmark software company Futuremark has dropped its allegation that graphics card maker Nvidia cheated, ending the dispute between the two firms. Futuremark now states that Nvidia's driver design is an application-specific optimisation and not a...
[June 3, 2003, 9:33]
Graphics benchmarker tightens the rules
News Futuremark, which operates the 3DMark range of benchmarks, published a new set of guidelines on Tuesday. These rules explain that Futuremark will not tolerate the practice of optimising software drivers so that a graphics card records a deceptively...
[September 24, 2003, 15:40]
Nvidia GeForce FX 5900 Ultra: updated benchmarks review
Reviews Because of the discovery that Nvidia has optimised the GeForce FX 5900 Ultra's display drivers to perform well on Futuremark's 3DMark03 benchmark, we have retested this card using an updated version of 3DMark.
[June 3, 2003, 10:05]
Nvidia accused of tweaking benchmark scores
News Saratoga, California-based Futuremark on Friday said in a statement that Nvidia tweaked software needed to run its new GeForce FX 5900 processor to distort performance in Futuremark's 3DMark 03 testing application.
[May 27, 2003, 8:16]
Google Web Accelerator sparks privacy fears
News I went to the Futuremark forums and noticed that I'm logged in as someone I don't know. A software tool launched by Google on Wednesday that speeds up the process of downloading Web sites has caused some users to worry about their privacy.
[May 5, 2005, 17:45]
Nvidia GeForce FX 5950 Ultra: the benchmarks review
Reviews All other things being equal -- using the same driver and with 4X anti-aliasing and anisotropic filtering enabled at a resolution of 1,600 by 1,200 -- the 5950 Ultra reference card we tested scored only 5.1 percent better than the 5900 Ultra on...
[October 24, 2003, 10:25]
Mobiles to get PowerVR 3D this year
News Nvidia this week joined the Khronos Group, the standards body behind OpenGL ES, as did ETRI, Futuremark, Oki, Secret Level, TAKUMI and WOW4M. The first portable products using Imagination Technologies' PowerVR MBX 3D graphics technology will ship...
[January 8, 2004, 16:35]
PalmSource teams with Nvidia on graphics
News Nvidia recently joined the Khronos Group, the standards body behind OpenGL ES, as did ETRI, Futuremark, Oki, Secret Level, TAKUMI and WOW4M. Graphics chipmaker Nvidia has signed up to tailor its mobile-graphics hardware for Palm OS-based devices...
[February 12, 2004, 11:10]
