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PCMark Memory Benchmark Favors GenuineIntel

Posted by kdawson on from the not-what-you'd-call-neutral dept.

javy_tahu writes "A review by Ars Technica disclosed that PCMark 2005 Memory benchmark favors GenuineIntel CPUID. A VIA Nano CPU has had its CPUID changed from the original VIA to fake GenuineAMD and GenuineIntel. An improvement of, respectively, 10% and 47% of the score was seen. The reasons of this behavior of FutureMark product are not yet known."

2 of 298 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Money by SimonGhent · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Easy. Intel paid them to make it that way.

    If anyone can come up with a better explanation I'd be interested to hear it.

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    simon
  2. Re:Money by Fumus · · Score: 5, Interesting

    What I don't get is why game developers don't release freeware benchmark versions of their engines.
    Saying that a config has 9000 points is pretty much useless. Saying that it gets an average of 40FPS in the UT3 benchmark at high details, and 1680x1050 is much more informative.

    Unfortunately, this also is a little bit more complicated, and as we know everything simpler is more popular with the dumb masses.