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AMD's Barcelona benchmarks: Omissions and disclosure matterPosted by George Ou in Real World IT on Sep 14, 2007 4:27 AM Subscribe Alerts92 comments: [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]

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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; 3 Comments
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; 164 Comments
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; 22 Comments
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; 30 Comments
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; 73 Comments
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