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To: Gary Ng who wrote (63442)	6/25/1999 11:05:00 PM
From: fyo	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572358

Gary - Re: Just curious why don't they post the real numbers. I won't say it is not real but just find it interesting to release benchmark this way. One word: Marketing. Intel does the exact same thing. Just an example: developer.intel.com --fyodor

To: Gary Ng who wrote (63442)	6/25/1999 11:39:00 PM
From: Windsock	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1572358

< Just curious why don't they post the real numbers> One possible reason: you can't compare AMD claims with benchmark scores from known, real platforms. This makes it hard for the lawyers, aka sharks, to file lawsuits when the reality is different than the claim.

To: Gary Ng who wrote (63442)	6/26/1999 12:10:00 AM
From: dumbmoney	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572358

Just curious why don't they post the real numbers. I won't say it is not real but just find it interesting to release benchmark this way. It's not too surprising, actually. The Intel SPECmarks are obtained using an Intel compiler, and with everything tweaked just right. Hard for AMD to duplicate, and a complete waste of time to try. So AMD does a quick-and-dirty SPEC compile using an off-the-shelf compiler, runs the same code on both CPUs, and gets a relative performance number.