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This is weirdly common; phone chipset manufacturers did it with phone benchmarks [0], VW with emissions [1], nVidia did it with 3DMark [2], Intel with the SPEC
by Cthulhu_ 1y ago
This is weirdly common; phone chipset manufacturers did it with phone benchmarks [0], VW with emissions [1], nVidia did it with 3DMark [2], Intel with the SPEC benchmark for its Xeon processors [3], etc.
When it comes to computer graphics, iirc it's pretty normalized now - graphics drivers all seem to have tweaks, settings, optimizations and workarounds for every game.
(As an aside, I hate that I have to link to archive.org, there's a lot of dead links nowadays but these are important things to remember).
[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20250306120819/https://www.anandtech.com/show/15703/mobile-benchmark-cheating-mediatek https://web.archive.org/web/20250306120819/https://www.anand...
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_emissions_scandal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_emissions_scandal
[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20051218120547/http://techreport.com/etc/2003q2/3dmurk03/index.x?pg=1 https://web.archive.org/web/20051218120547/http://techreport...
[3] https://www.servethehome.com/impact-of-intel-compiler-optimizations-on-spec-cpu2017-example-hpe-dell/ https://www.servethehome.com/impact-of-intel-compiler-optimi...
- cesarb 1y ago> When it comes to computer graphics, iirc it's pretty normalized now - graphics drivers all seem to have tweaks, settings, optimizations and workarounds for every game. Even Mesa has them: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/blob/main/src/util/00-mesa-defaults.conf https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/blob/main/src/uti...
- wat10000 1y agoGoodhart's law: when a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.
- darkmighty 1y ago> graphics drivers all seem to have tweaks, settings, optimizations and workarounds for every game. Maybe hyperbole, but I think obviously they can't do this for literally every game, that would require huge personnel resources. At least looking at mesa (linked elsewhere), only ~200 games are patched, out of what 100k PC games? So <1%.