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nVidia fails WHQL tests but Catalyst certified |
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Written by Phyro
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Wednesday, 29 September 2004 |
Recently, graphic games are getting more and more intensive and in that light we have some WHQL scores that we can trust. An nVidia WHQL FUD document against Catalyst claimed that after Catalyst 4.8 driver, ATI will need to remove their optimisations or it will lose its WHQL stamp.
 nVidia fails WHQL tests but Catalyst certified
The Catalyst 4.9 driver is out and ATI still has WHQL, meaning that its driver is fine from Microsoft WHQL test point of view. When we talked with Microsoft we learned that there is a set of tests that you can run in order to see if your driver is WHQL material or not. In other words, you test in house, see whether you can pass the tests and then later submit your driver for certification and get the stamp in less then 24 hours after submitting.
Microsoft can confirm this said us before that all of their nine drivers introduced in 2004 are WHQL and all of their drivers will remain WHQL certified. nVidia facts are not so bright, they had four partially WHQL while their latest publicly available 61.77 is not WHQL at all.
Our snitch sent us complete report on WHQL test finished at nVidia Geforce 5950 card with 61.77. they are failing each and every part of WHQL test. They are failing in all fourteen tests including, D3Dlines, Multisampling, Non power 2 conditional RenderTarget, Pixel Shader Precision, Pixel Shader Ver. 1.1, Pixel Shader Ver. 1.2, Pixel Shader Ver. 1.3, Pixel Shader Ver. 1.4, Pixel Shader Ver. 2.0, Point Sprites, Texture address, Texture stage, Update surface and YUV Bit test.
We are not sure what is going on with 6x00 cards and how are they performing but learning from the fact that nVidia still doesn't have WHQL drivers on its web page speaks for itself.
nVidia promised us WHQL drivers a few times already in the last few months since the launch but never released anything yet. What's going on nVidia?
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