Will it ever stop? ATI has confronted HardOCP saying that their Unreal Tournament 2003 benchmark heavily favors the GFFX 5900 while giving the 9800 Pro a disadvantage. Whatever. "ATI has come to us and told us that our UT2K3 benchmarks were off in our BFGTech Asylum 5900 Ultra review and that the benchmark numbers we shared were damaging the 9800 line of products. This was first brought to me by their PR Director, Chris Evenden, last Tuesday morning. At that time they did not submit any proof of their claims that shed light on the specific benchmarks we used. As of posting this, ATI has still never given us proof of any of their statements specific to the benchmarks they suggest are damaging to their product. Still, there was no doubt that ATI was genuinely concerned with the benchmark numbers. HardOCP has been incredibly critical of Image Quality this year and we have not been afraid to share our results with you, as was shown here in March of this year in this article that directly called NVIDIA's IQ into question. With that said, we are genuinely concerned with representing video cards performance to our readers fairly. So with ATI's prompting, Brent Justice and I decided to look further into the matter, but did so independently. Meaning that he did his own testing, as did I, and this article represents the joint conclusions we arrived at." The whole article is
here.
