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3DMarkVantage budget was five million dollars

tgdaily.com — If you consider that 3D benchmarks of today are less than satisfactory and thing you could do a better job, there is only one problem: it will take you several million dollars to build one. TG Daily found out that 3DMarkVantage had a five million dollar budget, and previous versions were above two million US$ range..

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  • mcherm, on 04/29/2008, -0/+1That's insane! To RUN a benchmark requires lots of hardware and stuff. But to DEVELOP one requires mostly brainpower, time and deep background knowledge of the subject (3D graphics). It's the sort of thing you'd expect open source to produce -- and it wouldn't cost $5 Million. Plus, if it were openly developed by hobbyists I wouldn't worry that it was secretly biased for/against one company or another. (It might be biased, but at least the biases would be visible.)
  • mintblogger, on 04/29/2008, -0/+0Just for benchmarking????????? This is definitely insane !
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