Industry group invalidates 2,600 official Intel CPU benchmarks

[HomerJ]

came across this

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

It mostly affects Sapphire Rapids benchmarks.

www.tomshardware.com

Intel accused of inflating CPU benchmark results

SPEC says Intel's Xeon processors were using a compiler that artificially inflated the results of its industrial benchmark by as much as 9%.

www.pcworld.com

Targeted Intel oneAPI DPC++ Compiler Optimization Rules Out 2k+ SPEC CPU Submissions - Phoronix

www.phoronix.com

SPEC has effectively invalidated more than two thousand SPEC CPU 2017 benchmark submissions after it was discovered the Intel oneAPI DPC++ compiler was effectively "cheating" per their standards with a targeted optimization.

Multiple folks have written in today about a number of SPEC CPU submissions now carrying this compiler notice:

 

[SpyderTracks]

This is more aimed at workstation CPU's up to server grade, but yeah, even though I guess we expect this of Intel, it's incredibly poor show.

I have no idea why anyone buys any of their marketing nonsense anymore, you have to be willfully ignorant to believe a word they say.

 

[HomerJ]

This is more aimed at workstation CPU's up to server grade, but yeah, even though I guess we expect this of Intel, it's incredibly poor show.

I have no idea why anyone buys any of their marketing nonsense anymore, you have to be willfully ignorant to believe a word they say.

if intel are allegedly willing to do this then what else are they up to