BAPCo calls ‘liar, liar’ on AMD, Intel still its golden prince

Benchmarks could be a little bit of a from side to side schoolyard screaming match — there’s a lot of yelling, but not always much brute force to back it up — so let’s take this situation of ‘he said / she said’ with a fair coarser grain of salt. BAPCo , a non-profit whose members include major tech industry heavyweights, slapped back at AMD today for publicly dissing the SYSmark 2012 benchmark it had an 80 percent hand in creating and for claming the gang forced them out of the club. The chip maker had similar beef back in 2007 over Intel’s benchmark-friendlier chips, and this seems to be the ultimate straw that broke its GPU’s back. On Monday, VIA and NVIDIA also joined the ranks of the recently defected, but avoided any superfluous PR finger-wagging. Wherever the reality may lie, undoubtedly someone’s got a case of the golf green-eyed monster, and it’s definitely not us. We’re watching you, AMD.

[Thanks, Muhammad; image courtesy BAPCo ]