It works this way because PPU cannot draw graphics, merely does calculations that a cpu does(this seperates what a PPU and gpu do), and in that specific test, they have increaased teh workload(from 8 threads to 16), so as to make the score comparable. However, the gpu is capable of many more threads, and the test is not programmed for it...basically during that test with those drivers, it is doing what nV thinks it should be doing, and not Futuremark. So furtureamrk has banned all such results using those drivers from the Hall of Fame and default score searches(you must look for the scores; noone will ever see your score by jsut browsing scores).
Now, my result is also invalid, but because I am using a driver that Futuremark has yet to approve. Every driver does this the first few days after release. But your driver changes the way the test is run...mine does not.
PPU increases cpu score, as it only can do cpu calculations...900-1200 points due to the increased cpu resources(PPU). Your driver increases cpu score...but you have not added cpu resources...and it increases scores by THOUSANDS...
Last edited by cadaveca; August 17, 2008 at 07:41 PM.
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