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I'm all for reproducing results, but given the relatively deterministic nature of computers (especially for new hardware) I feel this is an unwarranted criticis
by MegaButts 7y ago
I'm all for reproducing results, but given the relatively deterministic nature of computers (especially for new hardware) I feel this is an unwarranted criticism. How often do people get significantly different results when running identical tests on identical hardware?
- holy_city 7y agoJust looking at the first page of results for the 9980xe, it's pretty common, especially for multithreaded benchmarks: https://browser.geekbench.com/v4/cpu/search?q=9980xe https://browser.geekbench.com/v4/cpu/search?q=9980xe But the big qualifier is "on identical hardware." The geekbench score in the article is not a measurement on the same hardware, it's an aggregate of measurements across lots of hardware (different memory clocks, motherboards, etc). That's why a single run is not particularly useful, it just tells us what that user got on that day with that hardware. We need lots of data points to tell us more or less how it will compare on most builds. Again, not to diminish how promising the score is for the product. Hats off to AMD. I'm just waiting until there are more data points to be confident.
- MegaButts 7y agoFair enough. Thank you for taking the time to explain that to me when it was my fault for not understanding the tests (or really the test conditions).
- mkl 7y agoCan you disable frequency scaling reliably? In general clock speed is not deterministic - it depends how hot the CPU is, which is affected by all kinds of things (second run, fifth run, AC on, winter, etc.).