Nvidia bias on GPUBoss?

[nj4ck]

Hey forum, 

 

I have the feeling I may be a little late to the party here, but is GPUBoss.com known for being biased towards Nvidia? I was just reading some comparisons there, I've never used the site before but I immediately noticed that their numbers and reasoning for choosing winners is completely ridiculous. According to them, a GTX 770 is way better than a R9 280X, something I cannot confirm because I've had both in the past, and is rated even higher than an R9 290... :huh:

They even give an R9 290X a lower rating than a GTX 780... I don't consider myself an AMD fanboy at all, but that seems just completely unfair and extremely biased to me.. for example, they will always choose the game for testing that runs better on the Nvidia card. What do you think?

[flibberdipper]

It might be.

[jezza39]

Hey forum, 

 

I have the feeling I may be a little late to the party here, but is GPUBoss.com known for being biased towards Nvidia? I was just reading some comparisons there, I've never used the site before but I immediately noticed that their numbers and reasoning for choosing winners is completely ridiculous. According to them, a GTX 770 is way better than a R9 280X, something I cannot confirm because I've had both in the past, and is rated even higher than an R9 290... :huh:

They even give an R9 290X a lower rating than a GTX 780... I don't consider myself an AMD fanboy at all, but that seems just completely unfair and extremely biased to me.. for example, they will always choose the game for testing that runs better on the Nvidia card. What do you think?

 

I think they also had the GTX770 equal to the R9 290  :huh:

I really think their comparisons are garbage

[nj4ck]

I think they also had the GTX770 equal to the R9 290  :huh:

I really think their comparisons are garbage

they gave them both the same rating but chose the GTX 770 as the winner, regardless, yeah :angry:

[Scionyde]

Fun story - in a topic where somebody was asking for new build help on Tom's Hardware, some other guy(a Gaming badged member no less) argued with me that the GTX 770 was a better choice than an R9-290 (the person's budget could have comfortably fit either) because GPUBoss said it was better. 

 

/facepalm

[Lays]

I usually use results like that to get a "general assumption" but I take them with a grain of salt as well

[-iSynthesis]

They are 100% biased. I mean, the fact that an Intel Atom N270 (1 Core, 1.6GHz) gets 6.1 out of 10 against an FX 8350 (8 Cores, 4GHz) which gets 7.3. Dont trust them. They often only show geekbench score of 32 bit for example

 

The only comparison i've seen that isnt biased of them is HD 7990 vs GTX 690.

[Tacitus]

I think the equal weighting among the various categories is not consistent with the way people actually do it in their minds. It's a pretty unavoidable situation to some degree since people have different priorities and requirements but is quite skewed toward Nvidia.

As has been mentioned here, the 770 is rated as equal to the 290, but under their categories the gaming section has "N/A", and whether it has been factored in is unclear. Noise, temperature and power consumption is in most scenarios going to be skewed toward Nvidia, but the differences between a non reference 770 and non reference 280x are going to be pretty limited. So I'd add their weighting system seems to exaggerate the differences in performance.

 

Whether this is intentional or just a methodological problem, who knows?

[xAcid9]

GPUBoss, haha. They should put "Take our result with truck load of salt" into the website header.

[GamerDude]

I'm amazed that some look to them for an 'accurate' or 'fair' comparison of cards, they are garbage and I facepalm every time someone post a link to it to show a comparison between cards. Absolute garbage, I'd rather look at benchmark/card reviews on guru3d, Anandtech, THG, TR...to name but a few.

[Sonefiler]

GPUBoss, haha. They should put "Take our result with truck load of salt" into the website header.

"Take our results with a truck load of salt, while we take our results with lots of money from Nvidia"