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Guru3D.com » News » Professional overclocker finds a way to cheat benchmarks like 3DMark TimeSpy

Professional overclocker finds a way to cheat benchmarks like 3DMark TimeSpy

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 01/25/2018 09:03 PM | source: | 33 comment(s)
Professional overclocker finds a way to cheat benchmarks like 3DMark TimeSpy

Pro overclocker Ronaldo Buassali, working together with GALAX published a video in which he shows a way to apply altered driver settings shortly prior to the actual benchmark run. This results in false higher end scores. The issue is not isolated to the 3DMark suite.

Pretty much most benchmark software used in competitions, like the hwbot, can be cheated on, as videocardz notes today. Basically, the idea is (and as always it's a simple one) that you can apply different driver settings right before the benchmark actually starts.

Explained in simple wording: you start the benchmark, then you need to wait a while before the benchmark actually runs right? In that timeframe, you can lower image quality settings, since the driver and quality validation stage already have completed. This simple trick makes it possible to gain a better/higher score. Ronaldo made a video demonstrating the procedure and effect, he gains a normal total score of 12638 and graphics score of 13278 in Time Spy. By applying the settings he increased the score to 12951 / 13800. Software from Futuremark’s, Unigine’s and Allbenchmark’s (Catzilla) benchmarks all seem to be affected.

Albeit it is far-fetched and would be really unprofessional to apply, this trick could mean the difference between winning and losing in benchmark competitions in which money is made. Have a peek at the video (please do enable captions as it is in Portuguese).

 







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Denial
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#5514309 Posted on: 01/25/2018 09:51 PM
So does this mean Galax promotes cheating? seeing they were mentions as involved in this? they create Nvidia GPU to sell. Not sure why any company would want to be mentioned in anything involving cheating


No. They specifically state in the video that they reported the issue to Futuremark, they just wanted the community to be aware of the problem.

tsunami231
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#5514311 Posted on: 01/25/2018 09:53 PM
they shouldnt of post public video of in first place.

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#5514316 Posted on: 01/25/2018 09:58 PM
It got fixed already for firestrike and I think Timespy too .. unless its now a new (trssaa) flag to adjust +LOD.

EDIT: just checked full video ah its now reapply all :D

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#5514336 Posted on: 01/25/2018 11:26 PM
Gys! Ronaldo is brazilian BEAST OC :)

Vibe
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#5514344 Posted on: 01/26/2018 12:03 AM
People will never get tired of looking for new ways to cheat.


It's a benchmark not an online competitive game so what? The point of a benchmark is more for your personal benefit of receiving a visual of gains or losses for optimizing your performance or for your consideration in choosing hardware as a consumer than it is for anyone else but anyone that buys a card strictly on a set of benchmarks alone is asking for trouble as its far from the first time anyone's tried to mislead their consumers. For every one cheat potential found and reported there are several others not reported. It's the ones that haven't got caught and is why I would never buy hardware on benchmarks alone.

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