Benchmarking the Benchmarks 126
apoppin writes "HardOCP put video card benchmarking on trial and comes back with some pretty incredible verdicts. They show one video returning benchmark scores much better than another compared to what you get when you actually play the game. Lies, damn lies, and benchmarks."
OSS (Score:1, Funny)
back in my day... (Score:5, Funny)
whatevermark (Score:3, Funny)
I have no idea what this means, but it certainly sounds like Crysis has left its mark somewhere or other.
hmm (Score:2, Funny)
My old benchmark (Score:3, Funny)
10 PRINT TIME$
20 FOR I=1 TO 9999
30 NEXT I
40 PRINT TIME$
I then improved it to be:
10 A$=TIME$
20 IF A$=TIME$ THEN GOTO 20 !breaks out when the seconds change
30 I=1:A$=TIME$
40 I=I+1:IF A$=TIME$ THEN GOTO 40
50 PRINT I
Ahhh...the good old days... (1970s, early 1980s)
Re:1st Post (Score:3, Funny)
Layne
We need international benchmarking standards! (Score:4, Funny)
To avoid concentrating all the data management in a single entity, we need a national benchmarking committee for each country and then international elections to get a chief of benchmarking interrelationships or CBI.
To avoid the possible corruption of the CBI, we would need an independent international supervision committee for the review of benchmarking standards.
The IISCRBS would review the actions of the CBI yearly and produce a thorough report.
That report (which would be called the IISCRBS-CBI report) would be the main reference to start any kind of productive debate about who has the leetest rack and who's a lame n00b.
Re:back in my day... (Score:5, Funny)
Layne
Re:Would like to see a real world comparison for E (Score:5, Funny)
Are you one of those software pirates?
Re:OSS (Score:5, Funny)
Translation: if you mod me down, I will become more insightful than you can possibly imagine.
Re:My old benchmark (Score:4, Funny)
void doit(int i) { printf("%i\n", i); doit(i + 1); }
worked really well until I tried it in an environment where the call stack could get paged...then it turned into a hard drive benchmark
Re:back in my day... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:OSS (Score:3, Funny)
Clearly you haven't been drinking enough of your Kool Aid. Please contact the FSF and request more immediately.