Intel Corp (INTC)

[chipguy]

Have you actually run SPEC?
It takes hours.

Yeah a job worth doing must be capable of being done in a few minutes..
What the heck do you do for a living?

BTW, occasionally the simulations I run can take days or even a week
to complete on pretty fast x86 systems.

I don't think most office workers are going to run sustained compute workloads for hours.

A processor under load tends to reach thermal equilibrium within a
few seconds and either throttles or doesn't. A benchmark *suite* that
runs for hours means it is more accurate and repeatable. And it is
representative of how the processor runs sustained after a few seconds.

BTW, Intel has by far the most advanced turbo/dynamic power/voltage/
frequency management systems in the industry which trade off thermal
inertia for brief bursts of activity above TDP. Ridiculously short running
benchmarks run single off give an advantage to Intel.