Intel paid money to passmark.com to decrease measured AMD's CPU performance

Intel paid money to passmark.com to decrease measured AMD's CPU performance(twitter.com)

18 points by moneromoney 6 years ago | 3 comments

scandox 6 years ago |

Headline seems to be totally baseless

https://www.passmark.com/forum/pc-hardware-and-benchmarks/46...

moneromoney 6 years ago | |

The older results were similar to other benchmarks. Now passmark shows results that are completely different when comparing with other benchmarks...

altmind 6 years ago |

>> If you read the official release notes of version 10.0 carefully, you will find that the makers of PassMark suddenly incorporate the AVX512 command extension of the x86 command set into the evaluation, which is not supported by AMD processors.