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Good to see a thorough benchmark and a good writeup. Many "tech" sites now just repeat manufacturers press releases. Not Anandtech.
by RachelF 6y ago
Good to see a thorough benchmark and a good writeup. Many "tech" sites now just repeat manufacturers press releases. Not Anandtech.
- redisman 6y agoI recommend gamers nexus as well. It’s mainly YouTube content but they do very in-depth benchmarking and some innovative visualization on how uniform the cooling surfaces of a certain cooler are and things like that
- diziet 6y agoThe amount of thought that the Gamer's Nexus team puts in their work and benchmarks is incredible.
- rasz 6y agogamers nexus is one of few very rare places where they actually dont do the manufacturer "recommended set of tests", aka dont buy marketing bullshit. They are run for the users, not for selling advertisement.
- sundvor 6y agoAbsolutely. They are on fire lately, burning bridges with certain manufacturers who are now on my do not buy list. Won't name who here, best to leave his lawyers to deal with the flak, but it's definitely great to see those refusing to become sellouts!
- rasz 6y agoIts not that simple, often thorough benchmarks will be the ones suggested by manufacturer, or even designed and written by manufacturer. As it happens this is precisely Anandtech problem. They have a long legacy of printing whatever toiled paper manufacturers/vendors ship them https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22241800 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22241800 >Intel tactic was manufacturing facts and positive press stories, something we now call fake news. ... Intel SSE also got a big push with fake 3D acceleration claims https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=65247&start=20#p734738 https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=65247&start=20#p... Intel version: "At the time, I was working for Intel and was involved in the launch of the Pentium 3, aka Katmai. We _engaged_ a number of games manufacturers to provide demos showcasing not only Screaming Sindy's Extensions, but the arcane and mysterious Katmai New Instructions. One such outfit was Rage Software, now sadly deceased. Rage provided demos of Incoming and an early prototype of a game called Dispatched, which as far as I know never actually saw the light of day. Dispatched featured a strangely-arousing cat riding a jet powered motorcycle. The first version I saw was running on a 400MHz Katmai and was still in wireframe. It was bloody impressive." Reality, according to hardware.fr: "Let's start with Dispatched first. This is actually a Rage Software game that should come out late 99, which Intel showed the demo at Comdex Fall to highlight the benefits of the SSE. Big interest, it is possible to enable or disable the use of SSE instructions at any time. Nothing to say in terms of speed, it goes squarely faster once the SSE activated, + 50% to + 100% depending on the scenes! But looking closely at the demo, we notice - as you can see on the screenshots - that the _SSE version is less detailed_ than the non-SSE version (see the ground). Intel would you try to roll the journalists in the flour?" SSE version is less detailed? How convenient! Rage Software Dispatched never came out. The only outfit, other than Intel, in possession of this software was Anandtech. They used this exclusive press access to pimp out Pentium 3 benchmarks manufacturing fiction like this https://images.anandtech.com/old/cpu/intel-pentium3/Image94.gif https://images.anandtech.com/old/cpu/intel-pentium3/Image94.... >so it was pretty much an Intel commissioned demo piece to showcase P3 during Comdex Fall, and was cheating with details. Two other SSE patched games mentioned on hardware.fr actually ran slower with SSE Anandtech used Intel commissioned piece of fake software to lie to its readers about SSE for couple of years during the time Intel was getting kicked by AMD and paying bribes to vendors.
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- yread 6y agoI like notebookcheck's reviews as well. Very thorough, consistent over the years, everything is inttheir database and it's easy to make comparisons, they not only do objective measurements of brightness, noise, temperature and bunch of other things but also write down how they measured and with what. The only thing missing are confidence intervals
- RachelF 6y agoYes, Notebookcheck is a fantastic site. The German press seems to be more cynical about marketing, c't Magazine is great, but no longer available in English. The Register is also a good less technical site if you want to cut through BullSh_t in IT.
- sundvor 6y agoOh, thanks Anandtech indeed! Finally a proper test of PCIE4 NVMEs - I'm very happy with my choice of the 1TB 980 Pro now. I mean, I was always happy with it, but I've now got that validation one tends to seek, showing that it was a solid choice. It is no surprise though, as my 980 Pro comes from a long series of Samsung drive purchases including 970 EVO 2TB (in same system) and others going back, having chosen Samsung after they did seriously good on some of the earlier SSD torture tests. (I once had 4 IBM Deathstars in raid 10...)
- p1esk 6y agoIt’s a pity they didn’t test it against 970 pro
- wtallis 6y agoI left that one out of this initial batch because it's not really representative of anything on the market these days. But I am also curious to see how it scores, especially because it's one of the few recent consumer SSDs that doesn't rely on SLC caching.
- p1esk 6y agoI won't be surprised if it's actually a better drive than the 980 in metrics that matter.