News - AMD rejects ‘misleading’ SYSmark 2012

[HEXUS]

The chip-maker resigns acrimoniously from BAPCo consortium.

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BAPCo believes the performance measured in each of the six scenarios in SYSmark 2012, which is based on the research of its membership, fairly reflects the performance that users will see when fully utilizing the included applications."

SYSmark 2012 is priced from $750.

Not being funny but should BAPCo be doing research itself on a continuing basis and not relying on stuff based on reasearch done by others, I mean, how long does it take for reasearch to be collected and then acted on, at the pace that IT in general moves I'm guessing the two dont line up..

The last bit is a good addition though, $750 for a "6 scenario" benchmark system that isnt upto date as far as what it tests, I wouldnt be too interested in that either tbh..

[aidanjt]

And this is suppose to be a NPO. I wouldn't pay $750 for an actually productive piece of software, much less a handful of simple benchmarks.

[semo]

HEXUS doesn't currently use SYSmark in its bench-testing

How can they call it 2012 when it doesn't even test ie9 or FF 4 (both support GPGPU)? Bunch of ass hats. Intel must be loving this.

[danroyle]

$750 for $750 i'd want it delivered by Kelly brook and then for kelly to come in and give me a lap dance and then i'd still want some change

[amdavies]

And this is suppose to be a NPO. I wouldn't pay $750 for an actually productive piece of software, much less a handful of simple benchmarks.

An NPO is not what most people would define as a charity. It's much closer to being a limited company that reinvests all profits in exchange for reduced (sometimes zero) tax payments.

It can also be much more open to abuse than a charity:-

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ukne...s-charity.html

PACT, from the story above, is not a charity; it just accepts donations to help what some people see as a good cause and it can therefore be equated with being a charitable organization.