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%.

  • Blackmist@feddit.ukEnglish
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    10 months ago

    If a chip has instructions to make certain tasks go faster, I’d say it’s fair to recompile the benchmark to use them. We didn’t stop adding new things after the 486.