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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    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.

      • QuaternionsRock@lemmy.worldEnglish
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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?

          • QuaternionsRock@lemmy.worldEnglish
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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.

              • QuaternionsRock@lemmy.worldEnglish
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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.

                  • QuaternionsRock@lemmy.worldEnglish
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                    9 months ago

                    they warped that into this supposedly big scary defect, which is manipulative at best

                    Ah, I see where you’re coming from now. Something like that is obviously a minor defect, and it should be treated as such.