Thread: HardOCP Article on Canned benchmarks VS actual gameplay

Originally Posted by ...bigdog...

with tom's hardware charts, futuremark's global stats, and per-benchmark scores in 3dMark....I stopped reading hardware reviews a long time ago. Toms and anandtech, I skip to conclusions every time (and that's only on motherboard and other un-benchable reviews where most items fall within 5% of eachother).

Tom's CPU and VGA charts are as unbiased and objective as it can get. Graphics cards tested on identical systems, running dozens of different benchmarks that you can choose at will for multiple resolutions and feature settings. CPU's too. Going back for years.

So for me......it's nice to hear the guys at HardOCP et al say "oh this card is this and that and oooh and hmmmm and blah blah blah", but we all know that the only think that matters is that it performs well. Meaning standardized benches for framerate, drawing abilities, texture decompression, polygons, dynamic lighting........and the only benchmark that tests all of those at once, as WELL as your CPU, is 3dMark.

Perhaps aesthetic things, or setup things such as where the IDE slots are, or how close the RAM DIMMs are to the CPU socket, or the size of heatsinks......since those can't be benched....a review is helpful to me.

But power...capability....performance......the charts win, every time. consistency and simplicity. My favorite.

so when are you gonna upgrade your rig bd?

Before I drop $300+ on a card, I'd like to know what I'm spending my money on. I'll look at the canned reports and Hardocp. It's good to know the relative power from the canned reports but also what you can expect (if you have the exact same game as the benchies) from the Hardocp reports. Knowing what resolutions are "playable" are good. If you try to bump it beyond these and you don't like the framerate/gameplay, you've got an idea why.

That being said, the new 512 MB versions with the G92 chip from Nvidia seem to be kick butt! The 1 GB version seems to be a waste of 512 MB which is interesting.

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