Has anyone proven, that the graph was from ATI or is this just another opportunity to flame ATI? I asked this question in this very thread at least 2x already with this being the 3rd. However,
no one has proven that the graphis from ATI. Ok, fine, let's move the argument to dirty ATI PR/marketing tactics. Guess what? Every single company on earth uses the nearly same tricks for marketing and PR purposes. Every single one of them. I don't care what they say they are all equally guilty. So to single out ATI for a graph that can't, or at least hasn't, been proven to be from ATI for dirty PR/marketing is rediculous. I don't pay too much attention to ads, but if we dig through a lot of this PR/marketing stuff we can find equally bad stuff from nVidia is what most of the more sane folks are saying. Some of you are so pro nVidia that you fail to acknowledge such even when it bites you in the rear.
http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/NVID...unchAnalysis/images/X1900Launch-14.jpg
Check the above link. It's to "leaked" internal presentation slides from nVidia. See how they compare an obviously more mature SLI configuration and say it dominates an obviously not ready for prime time Crossfire config? ATI obviously had driver issues with those games (I'm assuming ATI fixed them by now, but I don't pay too much attention to multi-GPU systems). B&W2 and Farcry was performing worse with a Crossfire config than a single card config? And nVidia had the balls to use such figures? Now, I'm not saying the graphs are showing false info because at the time, it was true with ATI's latest drivers that was how it was performing but everyone with the least bit of intelligence and follows graphic cards would realize that it was most likely a driver issue on ATI's part and that it'll be fixed (hopefully soon but that would be ATI's problem). I'd call that pretty shady right there.
http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/NVID...unchAnalysis/images/X1900Launch-24.jpg
Check bullet number 3 in the above link. If that's not one of the biggest pile of bull from nVidia I don't know what is. An outright lie IMHO.
I'm not trying to say that nVidia as a company is shady or that their products suck. I'm just saying it's a PR/marketing departments job to make the competition look like they suck. A PR/marketing department bends truths and also puts out information in such a way that it makes their company and it's products look good. That's their whole job, to make their company and it's products look better than the competition. If you're going to condemn a PR/marketing department or firm for doing what they were paid to do then you really need a clue.
Bottom line, that graph that is the center of this whole argument can't, or at least hasn't, been proven to be from ATI. Even if it's proven to be from ATI it doesn't matter much because both ATI
and nVidia engage in similarly shady and misleading PR/marketing practices. To single out one company and blindly ignore the similarly shady practices of the other company is just plain bias.