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Benchmark Program Rewritten to Favor Intel?
BrookHarty writes "Interesting article over at Van's Hardware, that BAPCo the maker of the SysMark benchmarking program, has re-written its SysMark 2002 benchmark program in favor of Intels P4. AMD joined BAPCo in order to "correct" these "broken" results. AMD reports that BAPCo's SysMark 2002 (written by Intel Engineers) is a collection of tasks to summarize "Real World" performance. Interestingly, these tasks are selected for Intel's favored performance, while removing certain tasks that favor AMD. Vans Hardware has additional information on BAPCo's Shady history."
does it means that sysmark`s benchmarks is to intel as arthur andersen`s audits were to enron?
void Benchmark()
{
cout "AMD Athlon XP: infinity MIPS";
cout "Intel Pentium 4: infinity plus one MIPS";
}
So you would trust a benchmark from a webpage that is in the midst of bashing another benchmark? A little biased, aren't we...
"We" aren't, but apparently you are. When a web page takes a critical look at benchmarks and exposes those that are biased, then I would tend to trust that site to choose an appropriate, unbiased benchmark for CPU comparisons.
Yes, filtering web access is just like raping and killing children...
Not exactly. There's more screaming when you filter web access.
> Benchmarking the various "Benchmarking Programs"
:)
Yes but, "Quis benchmarkiet ipsos benchmarkiem ?":
Who benchmarks the benchmarks ?
(s/benchmark/custod/g and Google for the original quote
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