You guys are giving AMD way too much slack. It should have been obvious that something was a miss with the initial benchmark used and AMD was obviously trying to pawn off their performance or inflate it higher than it actually is. I don't think AMD is incompetent enough that they couldn't get simple driver things resolved on a test platform for a comparison.
They just happen to let a driver issue get by that happened to inflate their performance?
People are being paid money when they set up these things, it an honest mistake when it joe shmoe, but when a professional company does it. They should be making mistakes like that.
Some of you guys piss on review websites that don't uses updated drivers in reviews. This is even worse than that because this info(driver dates) are not readily available where in most reviews, they tell you exactly what drivers they used.
Basically anandtech caught them cheating and they had to back up on their words and give anand freedom to do what he wanted.
If they didn't, Anand would have published that AMD was cheating on his website and that would have been bad press, even with AMD users.
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