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Benchmark Kiddies

You are right Ed. These days "benchmarkers" seems to
be clueless journalists with agendas (looking at you,
Kennedy) who only know how to double-click an
automated benchmark suite.

The most common mistake I have seen is the failure to
realize that both Vista and (I assume W7) will try to
use the GPU to achieve the best balance between FPS
and graphical quality. This means that Windows may
switch on features of the graphics adapter which will
lower FPS. Generally FPS above 70 is a waste of effort
and if FPS can be traded in for improved graphical
quality it makes a lot of sense.

Vista supports DX10, Windows 7 supports DX11. In none
of the benchmarks I have seen have the "researcher"
even considered this. If W7 switches on DX11 features
(improves quality) and that causes FPS to go down
because, it becomes meaningless to compare FPS in
"game benchmarks". Unless the researcher can guarantee
that the game was executed with the exact same
rendering settings in both instances.

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