AMD Benchmarks Zacate APU, 2x Faster GPU Performance than Core i5

[tajoh111]

Read the article update at AT.They(AMD) used the drivers via the the manufacturer's website.Newest intel graphics drivers can't be automatically installed due to a known issue.It was just a set of circumstances ,not cheating.

They should have known that from the beginning from the performance and corrected it, as Anand saw it. They just happened to have convenient driver issues and didn't see it until Anand saw it? What the point of running a broken platform?

For the guys at AMD setting up this test, its like sending a kids town with a knife in it. They should have caught the error or in this case, they let the error slide to inflate numbers.

They should have seen the problem earlier and fixed it. These guys are not idiots. If they didn't get the problem fixed before hand, they should have used a different platform or laptop.

If Nvidia didn't this, you would be burning them at the stake and not blame driver issues.

[informal]

They should have known that from the beginning from the performance and corrected it, as Anand saw it. They just happened to have convenient driver issues and didn't see it until Anand saw it? What the point of running a broken platform?

For the guys at AMD setting up this test, its like sending a kids town with a knife in it. They should have caught the error or in this case, they let the error slide to inflate numbers.

They should have seen the problem earlier and fixed it. These guys are not idiots. If they didn't get the problem fixed before hand, they should have used a different platform or laptop.

If Nvidia didn't this, you would be burning them at the stake and not blame driver issues.

As can be seen,game performance was minimally impacted(practically the same CoH numbers with the new driver).And it's actually intel's fault since it's their platform,their drivers,their responsibility.Users shouldn't have to do manual tricks and acrobatics in order to just get latest graphics drivers running on their laptops.

[-Boris-]

They should have known that from the beginning from the performance and corrected it, as Anand saw it. They just happened to have convenient driver issues and didn't see it until Anand saw it? What the point of running a broken platform?

For the guys at AMD setting up this test, its like sending a kids town with a knife in it. They should have caught the error or in this case, they let the error slide to inflate numbers.

They should have seen the problem earlier and fixed it. These guys are not idiots. If they didn't get the problem fixed before hand, they should have used a different platform or laptop.

If Nvidia didn't this, you would be burning them at the stake and not blame driver issues.

We don't even know if this benchmark was planned a month ago when they set up the systems, if it wasn't, there was no issue to detect.
And letting Anandtech play around for themselves is a good sign that AMD didn't intended to rig the test.

[LightSpeed]

They should have known that from the beginning from the performance and corrected it, as Anand saw it. They just happened to have convenient driver issues and didn't see it until Anand saw it? What the point of running a broken platform?

For the guys at AMD setting up this test, its like sending a kids town with a knife in it. They should have caught the error or in this case, they let the error slide to inflate numbers.

They should have seen the problem earlier and fixed it. These guys are not idiots. If they didn't get the problem fixed before hand, they should have used a different platform or laptop.

If Nvidia didn't this, you would be burning them at the stake and not blame driver issues.

Do you really think they knew about it? Isnt it obvious that the 10x difference will make people want to verify it themselves? Why would AMD do that to themselves knowing that they will get caught? I would understand if the difference was 20 - 30 % across the board, but it was an isolated bench with a massive difference due to drivers

Its an honest mistake and the reason was plausible. Even if Nv did this, it would be understandable if the reason given was the same.

[Florinmocanu]

They should have known that from the beginning from the performance and corrected it, as Anand saw it. They just happened to have convenient driver issues and didn't see it until Anand saw it? What the point of running a broken platform?

For the guys at AMD setting up this test, its like sending a kids town with a knife in it. They should have caught the error or in this case, they let the error slide to inflate numbers.

They should have seen the problem earlier and fixed it. These guys are not idiots. If they didn't get the problem fixed before hand, they should have used a different platform or laptop.

If Nvidia didn't this, you would be burning them at the stake and not blame driver issues.

Regarding your comment on nvidia, when they used a fake card with wooden screws () they didn't let journalists to check it in person to confirm it's real.
AMD let the guys at AT to reinstall the drivers and re-do the tests, to show how open they are. Plenty good for me.