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Intel Xeon server benchmarks get the boot at SPEC.
The Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation added notes to over 2,600 benchmark results (here’s an example) accusing Intel of cheating one of its tests by tuning compilers mostly from Xeon server CPUs to overperform on a pair of specific benchmarks, according to Tom’s Hardware.
As PCWorld noted yesterday, companies’ decisions on spending “millions, sometimes billions of dollars” often hinge on third-party benchmark results like those SPEC supplies.
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