NVIDA Alters Benchmarks for Fastest Mobile GPU Crown

The crew at eTeknix say that NVIDIA has pulled a fast one with some recent benchmarks that make their mobile part look faster than the competition. Apparetnly old drivers were used in conjunction with a slower CPU in the AMD powered ASUS W90 that was pitted against the Alienware system.

To prove their point nVidia tested both systems and when setting up the Asus they stated that they used the "latest drivers". However it appears that this is far from the truth and the drivers are more than one year old, hardly utilizing the second 4870 at all. It is unclear if nVidia did this to provide a larger, more impressive lead than they already had in the benchmark or if they had to do this to come out on top.

It also appears that they did similarly under handed with the CPU, with the Asus sporting an Intel Q9000 and the Alienware M17x using the slightly faster Intel Q9300 CPU. Maybe they didn’t expect these omissions to be noticed or they had problems fitting a Q9000 to the Alienware we are not sure, but it is playing a bit fast and loose with the truth.

A follow up to the story has a response from NVIDIA (here) that places the blame squarely on ASUS for having a slower CPU in the W90 and AMD for having one year old drivers.

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