SPEC invalidates thousands of benchmark results — multiple Intel Xeon CPUs affected, are they not as fast as they seem?
SPEC invalidates thousands of benchmark results — multiple Intel Xeon CPUs affected, are they not as fast as they seem? Has Intel been cheating its benchmark results? When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. The Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC), which tasks itself with maintaining standardized benchmarks for computing components, has invalidated more than 2,600 results forIntelXeon chips. The non-profit consortium revealed that it would no longer publish SPEC CPU 2017 results for Intel PCs running a specific version of the Intel compiler....