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Futuremark's popular 3DMark benchmark has been the target of several questionable optimizations over the years. The company has strict guidelines for the graphics drivers it approves for use with 3DMark Vantage. These guidelines, which can be viewed in the PDF below, forbid optimizations that specifically target the 3DMark Vantage executable.

With the exception of configuring the correct rendering mode on multi-GPU systems, it is prohibited for the driver to detect the launch of 3DMark Vantage executable and to alter, replace or override any quality parameters or parts of the benchmark workload based on the detection. Optimizations in the driver that utilize empirical data of 3DMark Vantage workloads are prohibited

Vantage-specific optimizations are not allowed. Intel's 15.15.4.1872 Graphics Media Accelerator drivers for Windows 7 incorporate performance optimizations that specifically target the benchmark.