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Chipsets cheating in benchmark? Partial Frame Skipping? (0 Comments) (link)
 Wednesday, 13-December-2000  22:06:10 (GMT +10) - by Agg

I received some very interesting info via an anonymous email a couple of days ago. I've been mulling over whether to post it or not and have decided to make it public, with the caveat that people read it with a large grain of salt because I have not personally confirmed the results myself yet.

The claim is that SIS have, with certain chipsets, been cheating in a popular benchmark by not rendering all the required frames:

This trend continues with Frame 3 and Frame 4. On Frame 3, the ringed planet is now in exactly the same position in both the SIS 630 and PM133 systems. But in Frame 4 on the PM133 system, the gap between the ringed planet and the laser beam has widened further, while on the SIS 630 system the gap has remained the same as on Frame 3. Again, the only change in Frame 4 on the SIS 630 system is the counter.

Read the full article here: Partial Frame Skipping?



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