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.

 

[Brian_B]

When you are behind in the race you do what you can to kneecap whomever is ahead of you.

I mean, as we used to say in the Navy: if you aren't cheating, you aren't trying.

 

[igor_kavinski]

I mean, as we used to say in the Navy: if you aren't cheating, you aren't trying.

I'm almost sure that I read something to that effect by Wedge Antilles advising a rookie in a Star Wars novel. It went something like, you can complain all you want about the other side being unfair but guess who is still alive at the end?