Replies to post #22984 on Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD)

[sgolds]

Petz, not the same -

Overall Sysmark score is (as it should be) the geometric mean of these two (square root of the product).

Geometric mean of 2 and 7 is (2+7)/2 = 4.5
Square root of the product is sqrt(2*7)= 3.7416573867739413855837487323165

In general, sqrt(a*b) = (a+b)/2 when a=b.

[Dan3]

Re: McAfee Viruscan 7.0 at 27% of Office Productivity benchmark

So SysMark 2004 is as much a crock of sh!t as 2002.

What a shame.

McAfee Viruscan does not represent almost 1/3 of all office productivity tasks. I guess it's better than Excel Sort representing 90% of all productivity applications....

To paraphrase Kimball Kinnison; "I could swallow some CD fragments and puke a better benchmark."

[jhalada]

Petz,

Looks like Intel is up to its old tricks with Bapco and Sysmark 2004.

How AMD let them release this is beyond me.

I wonder about it too.

Joe

[wbmw]

Petz, Re: It will be interesting to see if there is a "fix" to the Centrino weakness in the ICC sub-benchmark.

What makes you say that, Petz? ;-) Do you know something you're not saying?

By the way, good analysis on the benchmark, but most of your arguments could easily be applied in the reverse. If AMD had Hyperthreading, for example, you would argue how good the technology is that it completed the foreground tasks quick enough to leave Photoshop without Premier running in the background. It's not worth my time to pursue, however. You dislike the benchmark because Intel wins. If the situation were reversed, I'm sure you would use your analytical skills to find all the same arguments to the contrary.