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%.

  • Buffalox@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    10 months ago

    The article states that the compilation was tailored for this specific task, which means it doesn’t represent how the CPU would normally perform it. So it’s definitely cheating.
    A benchmark is not supposed to be a compiler optimization competition. If they showed both, and revealed it was optimized, it would be another matter.