Comment on Intel accused of inflating CPU benchmark results

Buffalox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• mindlight@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  What CPU did you notice that on in the 90’s and how did you notice it?

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  • Buffalox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I remember specifically P4 was vastly overrated by Intel, where Athlon was actually generally faster at math, Intel used specially compiled code to show P4 was faster.
    But there were several examples where Intel cheated, because Athlon was way better than P4.

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    • czardestructo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I as not expecting to read about socket A tonight but I still have a special place in my heart for my old athlon. I still have the CPU somewhere in my basement, I had that sucker over clocked for years and it played a lot of WoW on it.

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    • JackFrostNCola@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      To be fair google ultron alwways ran more efficiently on Pentium 4s

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      • Buffalox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Yea, I suppose NASA optimizes for Intel.

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    • mindlight@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I’m not going to say you’re wrong but I’m surprised. It’s like we lived in alternate universes.

      Not that I think Intel wouldn’t cheat, because they’ve showed what they’re “capable of” time after time, but what I remember about Athlon vs P4 was that there was something about heat and wattage specified by AMD that was criticized heavily. Athlon was also not something you’d choose for overclock because of this.

      I just googled a little and there didn’t seem to be a trace of any controversy around P4 and tailormade compiler.

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      • Buffalox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Oh boy the Tom’s Hardware “scandal”. That story was 100% planted by Intel. It was before Athlon though, it was the K6. If the cooler dropped off, the AMD thermal safety didn’t react quickly enough. In my 40 years in IT I have NEVER heard about a cooler falling off the socket even once, except for that paid for cesspool of shit article.
        That story together with the 180° they did on RAMBUS to fgavor P¤ have made me NEVER use TOM’s Hardware since. It was 100% dishonest paid for shilling. Either that or so idiotic it’s not worth reading. Even you mentioning that now about 30 years later, it still pisses me off. 🤬 🤬 🤬

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      • Kangie@lemmy.srcfiles.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        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).

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      • MeanEYE@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Oh AMD was definitely a cooking stove, but get a decent heat sink and paste and you are good to go.

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• AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Everyone does it, it’s basically expected at this point that any manufacturer will announce that their new chip will run an infinite loop in fewer microseconds than the neighbouring one would.

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