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AMD calls SYSmark 2012 benchmark biased, quits BAPCo consortium

article published on 23 June, 2011

Nvidia and VIA follow AMD out of BAPCo consortium. The Business Applications Performance Corporation (BAPCo) is a non-profit consortium tasked with developing performance benchmarks for computer systems based on widely used software applications and operating systems. BAPCo has been developing the SYSmark 2012 benchmark intended to be used by businesses and governments to make spending decisions. ... [ read the full article ]

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xtago

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24. June 2011 @ 02:12

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Most of the time benchmarks don't mean much, really you buy a GFX cards and they are pretty much all the same speeds, it's really just the features and what you really after that matters..

Same deal with CPUs Quad 6 and 8 cores are the norm now, 9 times out of 10 you can't push these CPUs to the max load anymore as they process so much stuff so quickly that it's very hard to max them out.

You could buy the most hardcore games today and it'll barely push these CPUs over 50%.

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LordRuss

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24. June 2011 @ 11:23

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@xtago... I agree... And I also agree with the vendors walking out on the consortium as well. It's been a long time coming. Big bloat money has been swaying statistics for years manipulating stocks & purchase power for eons. Sheeple will also follow suit because they won't/refuse to see in 'test driven' machines that performance may not actually be any different in the consumer market.

Everyone buys these testing software packages looking to test their machinery to see if their getting the best, when the software manufacturer wrote the code specifically to work on one CPU set only. It's biased from the get-go & was consigned by the best money could buy. Call it a reverse insider trading, which I'm sure is still illegal & any blind man could see this is what has been going on; further displayed by the aforementioned walk out, not my little tirade here.

In hopes of keeping this short, bullying corporations need to stop. Policing actions won't do it. Elected government sanctions won't do it. So I guess we the purchasing public will just have to pull from the pages of a few crappy science fiction novels & literally have the the corporate giants go to war with one another.

That or we really need for organized crime to get back in the saddle again so the government will start doing their jobs like their supposed to. But that's another story.

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bobiroc

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24. June 2011 @ 18:54

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I agree with this 100% Real world performance is what matters. Some may make fun of my Phenom X4 compared to their Core i7 but It performs very well in real world applications. Using Synthetic Benchmarks is mostly a marketing scheme and there has been so many times in the past that evidence is disclosed of these benchmarks being taylored or tweaked to point the advantage a certain way.

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