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?

 

[Uvilla]

Question is, do you get the benefit in the " real" world, or this is just for the bench?

 

[Tyler-98-W68]

I remember reading about quack and quake on [H] way back when I was first getting into the computer hardware scene. My how things have changed, but stayed the same in some regards

 

[igor_kavinski]

My how things have changed, but stayed the same in some regards

Expect it to be magnified at Nova Lake launch. It's overloaded to the gills with extra features (APX, AVX10.2, 12 wide decode) that are unfortunately limiting the max frequency to no better than Arrow Lake. There might be no choice but to use iBOT for optimal performance until maybe Hammer Lake? After hitting 6.2 GHz with 13900KS, Intel really needed to keep boosting the max frequency with successive generations.

I hope we don't see the headline: "Intel, the company that once promised us 10 GHz with Pentium 4, just got eclipsed by the arch rival they have long considered inferior to their world class engineering prowess".

DISCLAIMER: Speculation based on rumors about current Nova Lake engineering samples. Intel could surprise us all, after all. Buy Intel stock NOW!

 

[Grimlakin]

Buy Intel stock NOW!

I mean is shorting still buying?

 

[Brent_Justice]

I remember reading about quack and quake on [H] way back when I was first getting into the computer hardware scene. My how things have changed, but stayed the same in some regards

Radeon 8500 - Year 2001, good times