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The AMD stereo salesman can not even lie effectively.

http://blogs.zdnet.com/Ou/?p=438&tag=nl.e539

Is AMD being hypocritical about benchmark ethics?

So here we have AMD’s Richard screaming about Intel’s use of older stats from the previous SPECint standard which shows Intel killing AMD by a large margin, then promises not to do the same thing, then goes right on ahead and offers one month old stats showing AMD’s 3% lead on SPECint_2006. Would that be a problem if nothing has changed since that time? No, nothing wrong at all. But I checked with CPU analyst David Kanter of Real World technologies and here’s what he has to say:

In January, AMD lead Intel by about 3% in SPECint_rate 2006; currently, Intel has pulled ahead by around 6%.

SPECint_2006 best scores as of Feb 2007

Dual core processor________ Base Peak
Intel XEON 5160___________ 53.2 55.2
AMD Opteron Model 2220___ 46.1 51.7

So right now, Intel beats AMD on SPECint_rate for both peak and base.

So we have AMD screaming about Intel’s misleading benchmarks, promises not to do same thing, then appears to turn around gives us outdated scores from a month earlier showing a small AMD advantage when the updated scores actually showed a larger advantage for Intel.