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Futuremark Announces Patch for 3DMark03 |
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| Tue, November 11 2003 | 2:29PM | PermaLink |
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Futuremark Announces Patch for
3DMark03
Ensures Objective Performance Measurements with Latest
Hardware & Drivers
Saratoga, California USA - November 11th, 2003
- Futuremark Corporation
announced today the immediate availability of a
patch to the 3DMark03
benchmark suite. 3DMark03 is the worldwide standard
tool for easily and
objectively measuring and comparing PCs' 3D
performance.
Available immediately, this free downloadable software patch
provides the
only valid version (340) of 3DMark03. Only scores obtained
through the
version 340 and with approved drivers will be used in official
statistics,
comparisons and services provided by Futuremark.
According
to Tero Sarkkinen, Executive Vice President of Sales and
Marketing at
Futuremark Corporation, "the new version is published to make
sure that our
customers can get an objective 3DMark03 performance comparison
with the
latest hardware and drivers. Our customers will be able to
perform
apples-to-apples performance comparisons between the various IHVs'
graphics
cards."
Parts of the program code have been changed so that
possible 3DMark03
specific optimizations in current drivers will not
work. 3DMark03 specific
optimizations in drivers are against run rules of
3DMark03, because they
invalidate the performance measurement results and
thus make it impossible
to compare performances of different hardware. A list
of drivers that have
been tested - and confirmed to produce valid 3DMark03
scores - has been
published on Futuremark's website.
The full
release is available at:
http://www.futuremark.com/pressroom/pressreleases/?111103
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