Intel paid money to passmark.com to decrease measured AMD's CPU performance

Posted by moneromoney on Saturday March 14, 2020 @06:11AM
from the twitter.com dept.

https://twitter.com/HansDeVriesNL/status/1238257119557832706

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Re:Intel paid money to passmark.com to decrease measured AMD... by scandox on Saturday March 14, 2020 @06:36AM (#22574373)

Headline seems to be totally baseless

https://www.passmark.com/forum/pc-hardware-and-benchmarks/46...

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Re:Intel paid money to passmark.com to decrease measured AMD... by moneromoney on Saturday March 14, 2020 @06:42AM (#22574390)

The older results were similar to other benchmarks. Now passmark shows results that are completely different when comparing with other benchmarks...

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Re:Intel paid money to passmark.com to decrease measured AMD... by altmind on Saturday March 14, 2020 @01:19PM (#22576864)

>> If you read the official release notes of version 10.0 carefully, you will find that the makers of PassMark suddenly incorporate the AVX512 command extension of the x86 command set into the evaluation, which is not supported by AMD processors.

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