AMD accuses BAPCo and Intel of cheating with Sysmark benchmarks

[Gregster]

AMD threw out a bombshell and accused its rival Intel and BAPCo, the benchmarking consortium, of cheating.

In a video posted Thursday on Youtube, John Hampton, director of AMD’s client computing products, went so far as to refer obliquely to the recent Volkswagen scandal, where the German car manufacturer was accused of cheating on diesel emissions tests. “The recent debacle over a major auto maker provide the perfect illustration as to why the information provided by even the most established organizations can be misleading,” Hampton said.

Intel declined to comment on AMD’s accusation, but when asked BAPCo officials said its customers trusted it.

"The reason thousands of customers trust BAPCo benchmarks is because we are an industry consortium that focuses on the performance of applications that people use on a daily basis," a spokesman for the consortium said.

Why this matters:
Performance still matters to consumers and organizations. Third-party benchmarks hold heavy sway over purchasing decisions even if few understand what they measure. AMD asks reasonable questions, but the answers remain murky—even from AMD.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/3023...ntel-of-cheating-with-sysmark-benchmarks.html

AMD are up against it again it seems. The good guys always come last

 

[Gregster]

Article needs to be more specific really. Which i5 and which FX cpu did they use?

It is all quite murky after reading the article and watching the video. You are quite correct as well and they do need to be more specific but generally, they are saying that one bench gives a 50% delta against their CPU and another 2 benches only give a 6/7% delta swing.