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%.

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      9 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.

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          9 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?

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              9 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.

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                  9 months ago

                  At the same time as Tom’s Hardware made a very wrong and bogus claim

                  Wait, so the claim about the thermal safety defect was incorrect? That changes everything, and it’s the other half of what I’ve been trying to figure out the whole time. I’ve been struggling to find any information on the claim one way or the other.