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The Register Finds Fault In Turion Benchmark Setup

Posted by timothy on from the never-promised-not-to-blow-my-nose-on-you dept.

An anonymous reader submits "From The Register, it appears that AMD has joined Intel, ATI, nVidia, and just about every other hardware manufacturer on the planet in benchmark fiddling. The benchmarks for the Turion appear to have been compared using quite different systems - a 35 watt Turion 64 with an ATI GPU versus a 25 watt Pentium M with an Intel integrated graphics processor. Sadly, it appears the original benchmarks were too good to be true."

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  1. I'll then reiterate for all AMD fanbois by melted · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    512K of L2 cache is suckage, especially for a processor with a slow bus speed (and in a laptop that's always the case). The benchmarks were too good to believe in them. There's simply no competition to P-M on the market at this point. Even Transmeta is smoking nervously in the corner.

    I got modded through the floor for saying this when these benchmarks first appeared. Now it turns out I was right.