Originally posted by: Matt2
Originally posted by: Zstream
Then tell me how the GTS scores remain identical to what everyone benches but the GTX is far far far far from anything we have seen so far.
I dont know. Only Dailytech knows. That's the point that you're missing.
Because we must use FRAPS to benchmark this game while running though a forest, we can see much larger variations in framerate between test runs than in other games.
That's from the Anandtech article. FRAPS is probably the most unreliable way to bench cards because it's totally dependent on where the player is and how long the FPS are recorded.
Dailytech already stated that they had very limited time to bench the cards, so I find it very hard to believe that they had time to call up Anand and say, "Hey Anand, we're running some benches and would like to know exactly where in the game you recorded the FPS for the 8800GTX roundup in Oblivion."
Since there obviously is no reliable way to bench cards in Oblivion, I'm guessing that there is some kind of loose "standard" that reviewers use.
The question you should be asking is not why DT's benches are so different, but if all 4 cards DT used were benched in the same area of the game. As long as the cards were benched in the same areas with the same settings, then the results are trustworthy.