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Pemalite said:
Captain_Tom said:


Honestly I have never trusted anandtech's numbers.  They always deviate heavily towards Nvidia from my other three websites: Techspot, Techreport, and Tom's Hardware.


No way.
I've found Anandtech to be right on the money in my experience.
Besides, if anything Anand favors AMD due to the extra advertising and the "AMD Center" even then I find them to be incredibly impartial.

The forums however are a completely different story, where nVidia has reps that knock AMD down constantly.

The main issue with Anandtech is how they generally never use the latest drivers in their bench section, as most know AMD was incredibly reliant on driver updates to extract performance from VLIW4 and GCN in the early days, I can understand why they did it, to keep everything fair and balanced, but it's still annoying.
That's why the numbers seem to deviate.

That's what I mean.  Maybe I noticed the AMD problems more because I have an AMD card, but there have been multiple times where I have found my Nvidia or even Intel card performing completely differently from their's.  

There's just been too many times I have found them WAY off.  If you like them that is fine, but like you said: "They never use the latest drivers."