tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32351755.post5511591228765012383..comments2023-08-01T11:15:10.503-04:00Comments on Scientia's Blog: The Value Of BenchmarksScientia from AMDZonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11307174874527564058noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32351755.post-27852769683073231932008-07-01T05:33:00.000-04:002008-07-01T05:33:00.000-04:00Guess enumae didn't dig too deeply either... From ...Guess enumae didn't dig too deeply either... <BR/><BR/>From the pdf:<BR/>"Intel commissioned Principled Technologies to measure performance WITH INTEL'S vCONSOLIDATE workload"<BR/><BR/>and later:<BR/>"Intel defined, implemented and supplied the vConsolidate workload."<BR/><BR/>I guess Principled just had to push the button.Woof Woofhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12699895232313063607noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32351755.post-31193610411735007952008-06-26T06:51:00.000-04:002008-06-26T06:51:00.000-04:00AMD is about to become the most powerful platform ...AMD is about to become the most powerful platform company in the desktop space, all they need is new more powerful and competitive CPUs (dual and quad core). The RV7-- series of cards are by far the best mainstream cards at the moment and I expect that AMD will keep the situation for some time to come.<BR/><BR/>AMD dual cores are reasonably OK in the lower segment and lower mainstream segment butPop Catalin Severhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10767225265147312372noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32351755.post-69181895394604085432008-06-22T19:44:00.000-04:002008-06-22T19:44:00.000-04:0013ringinheat"I must have missed the article by you...<B>13ringinheat</B><BR/><BR/><I>"I must have missed the article by you about AMD skewing benchmarks on their site showing the X2 series beating all core 2 duos by a huge margin then...."</I><BR/><BR/>I don't recall a series of benchmarks where AMD claimed that K8 X2 beat all Core 2's by a huge margin. Is this something you can link to or do we just have to take your word for it? The only Scientia from AMDZonehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11307174874527564058noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32351755.post-3725113263343917992008-06-21T19:37:00.000-04:002008-06-21T19:37:00.000-04:00I added SPECjbb as well.I added SPECjbb as well.Scientia from AMDZonehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11307174874527564058noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32351755.post-70598207719317280572008-06-21T19:15:00.000-04:002008-06-21T19:15:00.000-04:00enumae"Well you should have done more digging, Int...<B>enumae</B><BR/><BR/><I>"Well you should have done more digging, Intel didn't run the test."</I><BR/><BR/>I can't see why it would be important who ran the tests. As I mentioned in the article: the vConsolidate benchmark was created by Intel so it will undoubtedly favor Intel hardware. Intel is avoiding the VMmark benchmark created by the maker of VMware, presumably because it is not skewed in Scientia from AMDZonehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11307174874527564058noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32351755.post-80478144392181323662008-06-21T14:23:00.000-04:002008-06-21T14:23:00.000-04:00ScientiaThe last thing Intel wants is an objective...<B>Scientia<BR/>The last thing Intel wants is an objective measurement of virtualization performance...</B><BR/><BR/>Well you should have done more digging, Intel didn't run the test. <BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://www.principledtechnologies.com/Clients/Reports/Intel/vConMP0907.pdf" REL="nofollow">Principled Technologies</A><BR/><BR/><BR/><B>There are also the SPEC tests done by third party Heise enumaehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03279137923346047097noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32351755.post-77783344770956542692008-06-20T22:10:00.000-04:002008-06-20T22:10:00.000-04:00I think Intel should give up on benchmarking and i...I think Intel should give up on benchmarking and instead rely on an endorsement from Robert Mugabe-their credibility would improve!Polonium210https://www.blogger.com/profile/03179220006087088532noreply@blogger.com