Industry group invalidates 2,600 official Intel CPU benchmarks — SPEC says the company's compiler used unfair optimizations to boost performance - eviltoast
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    9 months ago

    isn’t this basically what Volkswagen did with their Diesel engines to make their emissions look better?

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      9 months ago

      VW had a trigger in their software that would make the engines more efficient if they sensed they were being tested. Chip speed isnt indepedently tested so Intel just rigged the test.