It actually appears like neither card is doing anything wrong. We might be holding on to an old model of technological innovation.
The article asserts that the cards "inflated" the scores by using more efficient rendering and other means not mentioned to reduce the demand on the card.
Just think of the possibilities, however, of software optimized for various cards--ATI, NVidia, etc. Each would reach those higher performances with code that makes similar calls like the benchmark program.
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