This bothers me everytime a new CPU is in the works and people get their hands on the chips early and leak stuff.
Things tested are superpi, wprime, chess benchmark and so forth. All of these benchmarks have no practical relevance at all, superpi is completely outdated (and inefficient btw). Or the ES are benched in games with a midrange graphics card at 1080p, moving the bottleneck towards (if not completely to) the GPU. You get the gist. No offence, but sometimes I'm under the impression that only morons get engineering samples (or people who just want to antagonize the rest of us with meaningless benches).
Why is that? Why not test real stuff like video encoding, rendering, cpu-intensive games/settings (with the use of savegames, not timedemos, which most integrated benchmarks are).
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