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%.
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%.
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).
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.