An anonymous reader shared this report from PCWorld:
The Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation, better known as SPEC, has invalidated over 2600 of its own results testing Xeon processors in the 2022 and 2023 version of its popular industrial SPEC CPU 2017 test. After investigating, SPEC fou.
The Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation added notes to over 2,600 benchmark results (here’s an example) accusing Intel of cheating one of its tests by tuning compilers mostly from Xeon server CPUs to overperform on a pair of specific benchmarks, according to Tom’s Hardware. As PCWorld noted yesterday, companies’ decisions on spending “millions, sometimes billions of dollars” often hinge on third-party benchmark results like those SPEC supplies.
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