On The Insider: Britney's Bikini-Clad Top 10
BNET Business Network:
BNET
TechRepublic
ZDNet
AMD's Barcelona benchmarks: Omissions and disclosure matterPosted by George Ou in Real World IT on Sep 14, 2007 4:27 AM
ou_ image
[Update 9/16/2007 - After doing a little more digging, it appears that SPEC's rules require the clear statement of a basis of comparison www.spec.org/fairuse.html rule 3.b.  Without a basis of...[Read the rest]

More Benchmarks on ZDNet

Benchmark snafu redux: Gracefully unpublishing benchmarks is impossible to do
Fellow blogger George Ou is hanging on to AMD like a pit bull as a result of what he believes to be deceptive practices in benchmark publishing. In many ways,... [Read the rest]
Posted by David Berlind in Berlind's Testbed on: Jul 6, 2007 8:41 AM
All that AMD is left with is spinning the numbers
AMD is so broken that all it has left in the battle against Intel is marketing spin. What's AMD going to try to sell me next? A special secret sauce... [Read the rest]
Posted by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes in Hardware 2.0 on: Jul 4, 2007 4:25 AM
AMD posts blatantly deceptive benchmarks on Barcelona
 Updated 8/16/2007 - AMD caught red handed [UPDATE 7/6/2007 - AMD intends to drag their feet on removing the deceptive benchmarks] After AMD admitted the bad news last week that... [Read the rest]
Posted by George Ou in Real World IT on: Jul 4, 2007 12:37 AM
Intel releases new 10.0 compiler
Intel today has announced availability of the newest Intel 10.0 compilers for C++ and Fortran developers which boasts huge optimizations across a wide range of applications along with some basic... [Read the rest]
Posted by George Ou in Real World IT on: Jun 5, 2007 9:11 AM
Intel V8 intimidates Barcelona using half the cores
AMD recently produced some impressive Barcelona 16-core (4-socket quad-core) scores of just over 4000 on the POV benchmark. Charlie Demerjian estimates that these are probably 1.8 GHz pre-production low-power 65W... [Read the rest]
Posted by George Ou in Real World IT on: May 30, 2007 10:16 PM
Beyond AMD's Barcelona hype - the fine print
Theres been a lot of hype lately coming from AMD about Barcelona, and its been regurgitated throughout the Web. Even though no actual benchmarks were released, some of the following... [Read the rest]
Posted by George Ou in Real World IT on: Apr 25, 2007 3:57 AM
Some vacation. A week's worth of RSS feeds to read in a day. A lot of it about servers, AMD and Intel.
Of course, thats a rhetorical question. Sadly, I know Im not alone when it comes to the pile of work that you come back to after taking a vacation. You... [Read the rest]
Posted by David Berlind in Berlind's Testbed on: Apr 13, 2007 8:20 AM
The benchmark war: AMD vs. Intel
On average, AMD boards are likely to perform closer to their potential in the hands of ordinary users than Intel boards. [Read the rest]
Posted by Paul Murphy in Managing L'unix on: Apr 12, 2007 12:00 AM
Strike 3 for AMD hypocrisy on benchmarking
AMD swung hard at Intel for what it deemed as ethics violations, but since then, it has pulled the same stunt its been criticizing Intel for three times in a... [Read the rest]
Posted by George Ou in Real World IT on: Apr 4, 2007 6:15 PM
AMD answers to controversial use of retired benchmarks in China
Earlier today, I wrote up the news of AMDs newest Opteron: the 3.0 Ghz 2222SE. In addition to news of the new 2P server-targeted dual-core processors release, AMD also released... [Read the rest]
Posted by David Berlind in Berlind's Testbed on: Apr 4, 2007 4:02 PM
Amid questionable benchmarking choices, AMD 'claims' speed title with new Opteron 2222SE
In a release of benchmarks that could fuel the fires of benchmark controversy (which are already blazing hot), AMD today is announcing the official release of its Opteron 2222SE processor.... [Read the rest]
Posted by David Berlind in Berlind's Testbed on: Apr 4, 2007 9:55 AM
After slamming Intel for using retired benchmarks, AMD does the same thing in China
The industrys benchmarking soap opera official entered its kettle, pot, black phase today when a news report and photos of an AMD presentation in China showed AMD claiming performance supremacy... [Read the rest]
Posted by David Berlind in Berlind's Testbed on: Mar 28, 2007 8:01 PM
Inside the belly of the benchmark debate
David Berlind says Intels benchmarks dont add up. George Ou disagrees. The debate on technology benchmarks--whether its hardware related like Intel vs. AMD or software--is nearly endless. This Talkback... [Read the rest]
Posted by Larry Dignan in Between the Lines on: Mar 19, 2007 11:55 AM
AMD's no angel, but Intel's public usage of benchmark data is feloniously misleading
In recent weeks here at ZDNet, I have been matter, and my colleague George Ou has been anti-matter. Or maybe the other way around. Publicly on ZDNets blogs, George has... [Read the rest]
Posted by David Berlind in Berlind's Testbed on: Mar 16, 2007 3:33 PM
Did Intel rig test or out engineer AMD/ATI?
When Humphrey Cheung at TG Daily wrote a glowing review of Intels G965 embedded graphics chipset beating an AMD/ATI X1600 dedicated graphics board on a video playback quality test, AMD... [Read the rest]
Posted by George Ou in Real World IT on: Mar 14, 2007 3:42 AM
HP and IBM duel over blade thermal benchmarks
HP released a study performed by Sine Nomine Associates (and paid for by HP) claiming that its BladeSystem c-Class servers use 27 per cent less power than IBMs BladeCenter-H models.... [Read the rest]
Posted by Dan Farber in Between the Lines on: Mar 8, 2007 1:17 PM
Is AMD being hypocritical about benchmark ethics?
Is AMD being hypocritical when criticizing Intel? We have AMD screaming about Intel’s misleading benchmarks, promises not to do same thing, then appears to turn around gives us outdated scores... [Read the rest]
Posted by George Ou in Real World IT on: Mar 2, 2007 12:35 AM
Video: Henri Richard comes out swinging at Intel during AMD press conference
While in San Francisco to participate at Adobes Engage event yesterday and do some work at CNETs headquarters (CNET is the parent company to ZDNet), I stumbled up an AMD... [Read the rest]
Posted by David Berlind in Berlind's Testbed on: Feb 28, 2007 5:58 PM
Photo Gallery: AMD claims its ATI R600 is primed, ready to beat NVidia's 8800
Among the various agenda items at todays AMD press conference was a report card on its plans for CPU/GPU integration -- a part of the companys long term vision now... [Read the rest]
Posted by David Berlind in Berlind's Testbed on: Feb 28, 2007 5:27 PM
AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+ out - Still can't beat Intel's E6700
Today sees AMD release the Athlon 64 X2 6000+. This is a dual core processor that runs at 3.0GHz and has 1MB of L2 cache per core (2MB in all).... [Read the rest]
Posted by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes in Hardware 2.0 on: Feb 20, 2007 8:12 AM
AMD Claims Quad-Core "Barcelona" will outperform Intel "Clovertown" by 40%
When AMD launch the Barcelona processors at some point mid 2007, it is claiming that the chips will outperform Intel's Clovertown processors by 40%. Bold claims, but will the benchmarks... [Read the rest]
Posted by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes in Hardware 2.0 on: Jan 26, 2007 3:23 AM
Battle of the Quads: Intel eats AMD's "Frankenstein" for lunch (and spits it out)
Our boy George Ou who loves to talk hardware is all over several rounds of benchmark tests pitting Intels 2.66 GHz quad-core QX6700 against AMDs new "4×4" Quad FX dual... [Read the rest]
Posted by David Berlind in Berlind's Testbed on: Dec 1, 2006 4:35 PM
AMD Quad FX slaughtered by a single Intel CPU
All the reviews are in for AMDs new "4x4" Quad FX dual CPU platform and it loses nearly every single real world benchmark to a single Intel CPU while consuming... [Read the rest]
Posted by George Ou in Real World IT on: Nov 30, 2006 9:19 PM
Who to believe on power consumption? AMD or Intel?
If we are to believe AMD's claims that Intel uses dubious TDP numbers and has more power hungry chipsets on the motherboard, then we should be seeing a difference far... [Read the rest]
Posted by George Ou in Real World IT on: Jul 17, 2006 2:38 AM
Initial Core benchmarks look dire for AMD
In a shootout that tested some of the more popular games and video compression Codecs, Intel's 2.66 GHz Conroe bested AMD's Athlon by an average of more than 20%! [Read the rest]
Posted by George Ou in Real World IT on: Mar 10, 2006 4:58 PM
advertisement

Top Rated

Subscribe

Use the feeds below to subscribe using your RSS feed aggregator.

ZDNet Government

ZDNet Education

advertisement

In Focus

ZDNet Blogs

  • Smart Tech Expert advice on innovations in healthcare and the green technologies that make it happen. Find out more
  • Smart Business Discussion and advice on management issues that revolve around making your world smarter and more useful. More Smart Advice
  • Smart People The best and worst moves in the management and strategy trenches. Learn More