Intel CEO says the industry should stop using benchmarks

[CuriousTomCat]

"We should see this moment as an opportunity to shift our focus as an industry from benchmarks to the benefits and impacts of the technology we create" - Bob Swan, CEO.

https://www.pcgamer.com/intel-tiger-lake-move-away-from-benchmarks/

 

[CuriousTomCat]

Let's humour the guy and look at the "benefits" instead of the benchmarks as he suggests - PCIe 4, socket longevity, price.

AMD still wins.

 

[CuriousTomCat]

Come on that's not true. Up until Ryzen, Intel had a huge lead in the CPU market and it took until Ryzen 2nd Gen for major gaming gains from AMD. And its great AMD are competing and now beating intel with their CPUs but to say Intel had nothing 5 years ago when Skylake just released with Intel's first full 14nm release is just a lie. Skylake was great 5 years ago.

AMD basically had no products to complete with 5 years ago due to a failed architecture.

Intel beat AMD by miles just because their architecture wasn't a failure.

Its like winning a race against a man with one leg. Intel walked the whole distance and won easily. Intel didn't start running until they had competition from AMD.

 

[CuriousTomCat]

Its been more than 3 years now... what are Intel doing, still refreshing the same architecture while trying to convince people benchmarks don't matter, for years Intel used Cinebench as the God Benchmark to show how good their CPU's are, insisting reviewers use it for that purpose, and they did, now Intel want you to drop Cinebench and benchmark Windows Media Player instead, or just not use benchmarks at all.

Yeah they're just very sore loosers. They clearly care about benchmarks after the sponsored review debacle where the AMD chip had low memory timings. I think it was the 9900K review they sponsered? Then there's that time they used an industrial water cooler at computex so they could pretend they had a 28 core 5GHz CPU. Pathetic behaviour.

 

[CuriousTomCat]

Intel gave us 4 cores for 10.5 years if you go back as far as the Core2 Quad in 2007. What a joke.

 

[CuriousTomCat]

"AMD not cool though"

I don't understand this uncool image that AMD seem to have.

When I think of Intel I picture corporate board meetings and middle aged businessmen in suits.

When I think about AMD I picture cool and trendy young gamers. You only have to look at their website and YouTube channel to get that impression.

Even the Intel tune in the adverts sounds corporate and clinical.

 

[CuriousTomCat]

anything amd is behind though in games. thats not a debate its just true.

Surely it's games that are behind for not properly supporing AMD's high core count. Ryzen is the better product and thats not a debate its just true.

Intel needs much higher frequency to beat AMD in single threaded workloads due to AMD's higher IPC.