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Benchmark Program Rewritten to Favor Intel?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the if-all-else-fails-change-the-requirements dept.

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."

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  1. Clang! by MaxVlast · · Score: 1, Redundant

    That sucks. If you can't have the fastest processor, have the fastest benchmark program!

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  2. I'm no impressed by AaronPSU79 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    All the data in Van's article came from AMD, so what do you expect?