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Intel accused of inflating CPU benchmark results (www.pcworld.com)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Intel accused of inflating CPU benchmark results::SPEC says Intel's Xeon processors were using a compiler that artificially inflated the results of its industrial benchmark by as much as 9%.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

There absolutely was. Intel got smacked on the wrist for doing their benchmarks using ICC.. you know, the compiler that builds code that detects that it's not running on an Intel CPU and disables all optimisations and extended instruction sets (like say MMX/SSE).

[–] [email protected] -2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Let me repeat myself: I'm not defending Intel in any way. I've seen a lot of shit and murky business practices going down since the beginning of the 90's when I started my career in IT, so I have no trouble believing that Intel did it again and again.

However, it's not that hard to back claims you make with facts when on the internet. Normally ou can link whatever with two clicks maximum.

Still no one seems to want to help me read up on Pentium 4 and Intel cheating.

The ICC "optimization", as far as I remember it, was related to the Xeon line of processors. If it was P4 related, please link so that I can read up on it.

[General Rant and not about you]I really don't understand why it's so hard for people to post links that back their claims. If you post a link you give people the opportunity to learn. If you don't, it's like you just want to be right and nothing else.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

it’s not that hard to back claims you make with facts when on the internet.

False, when it's 30 years or more back, it absolutely is, even things I remember from just 20 years ago can be hard to find. Sometimes it disappears other times it's drowned out by similar stories that are newer.
You are completely delusional about the efficiency of search engines, and the memory of the Internet, not every thing stays up even for just a few years.
Also it may lack context of things that were common knowledge of the time.

The ICC “optimization”, as far as I remember it, was related to the Xeon line of processors.

Maybe that too, but it's still correct as @Kangie wrote, it was 100% also used against AMD on consumer products.

Intel used every trick in the book, even when they weren't quite legal, because P4 was a shitty product, and they couldn't compete on merits with it. They even tried to revive P3, but it failed above a certain clock speed, 1.13 Ghz if I remember correctly.