Geekbench Flags Intel iBOT Results as Potentially Invalid, Investigation Finds Vectorized Instructions Behind 30% Gains

[David_Schroth]

Do you remember the renaming of Quake to Quack benchmarking controversy? We do, but in case you don’t, here’s another one for the pile. Intel’s new Binary Optimization Tool, better known as iBOT, is now doing some benchmark optimization of its own, and Geekbench’s response is worth paying attention to. Primate Labs, the developer behind […]

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[igor_kavinski]

Yeah. Intel caught with its pants down. No idea why they keep doing that.