Futuremark has released a statement to follow-up on the recent controversy over
whether NVIDIA was cheating on their drivers to provide better 3DMark03 scores.
The statement was sent along to a couple of sites (
Bjorn3D
was the first to send word), and while the conclusion states: "However,
recent developments in the graphics industry and game development suggest that a
different approach for game performance benchmarking might be needed, where
manufacturer-specific code path optimization is directly in the code source,"
the main thrust of the release says: "Futuremark now has a deeper
understanding of the situation and NVIDIA's optimization strategy. In the light
of this, Futuremark now states that NVIDIA's driver design is an application
specific optimization and not a cheat ."