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%.

    • QuaternionsRock@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      7 months ago

      The cooler falling off is an impossible situation. It’s a completely bullshit metric.

      I don’t disagree - I can’t imagine that ever happening in real life. But taking the cooler off while it’s running? I can definitely envision my idiot 13-year-old self doing that back when I was building my first PC.

      Intel CPUs of the time ran hotter, used more power, and had lower IPC, hence the higher clock speeds but lower actual performance. They had to invent some bullshit to make themselves look good.

      Given this information, I probably still would have gone with the Athlon. Are you saying that a report about a very-difficult-to-trigger defect in the thermal safety single-handedly convinced thousands/millions of potential customers to choose the Pentium instead?

      Besides, just a while before that generation thermal safety wasn’t even a thing, if you remove the cooler from older Intel processors it just catches fire lol

      I’m guessing that’s why thermal safety was a selling point, no?

        • QuaternionsRock@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          7 months ago

          some time later AMD brought their asses to court and sued over it, with literally billions in damages and agreements that Intel had to pay.

          A ha! This part of the story hasn’t been brought up yet, and it sounds like it would completely change my opinion.

            • QuaternionsRock@lemmy.worldEnglish
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              7 months ago

              I read that article and looked around a bit, and I can’t find anything related to AMD’s thermal safety mechanisms. What am I missing?

                • QuaternionsRock@lemmy.worldEnglish
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                  7 months ago

                  It’s starting to sound like you have never seen any evidence that reporting on a rare AMD thermal safety defect is an intricate Intel psyop, or whatever the claim is.

                  My first comment in this thread simply asked for an explanation as to how a reported (and again, unimportant) defect in AMD chips is somehow Intel’s fault. I guess it was silly of me to expect a straight answer from AMDIsOurLord.