JC,
RE:"Now, Tom's ... theirs is an interesting one. I get the very bizarre impression that the guy who chooses the benchmarks is strongly biased towards Intel, and the guy who writes the conclusions is strongly biased towards AMD. Bizarre, no?"
I don't think Tom handles the articles anymore. The last bunch of them made little sense.
RE: "I think Anand was honest about SPEC. I think that he made a solid decision to include it into his benchmark tests, but I think he stopped using it because he found out that it's a real bitch to actually use, and because many, many people complained that he was only using it because he was pro-Intel, so he just got pissed off and stopped. Anand is one of those guys who can't win, no matter what he does (actually, if he acted exactly like Johan De Gelas, he'd win, but that may be asking too much of most people)."
I think that in order to get a P4 test chip Intel strongly suggested which benchmarks to include in the tests.
Even if wrong, when a benchmark comes out of the blue like SPEC it should be questioned as should all benchmarks, especially B0pco sysmark...
OTOH, Anand is a winner. Plain and simple.
Jim |
