News PassMark (cpubenchmark.net) pulls a UserBenchmark and downgrades all AMD chips

[moinmoin]

After Userbenchmark (see previous thread on here) PassMark is the next benchmarking site making all its numbers useless by boosting some obscure parameters in favor of Intel chips:

PassMark CPU Benchmarks - Single Thread Performance

Benchmarks of the single thread performance of CPUs. This chart comparing CPUs single thread performance is made using thousands of PerformanceTest benchmark results and is updated daily.

www.cpubenchmark.net

The first AMD chip in the single thread performance listing is now AMD Ryzen 3 4300U at position 35...

Yesterday there were still some few more AMD chips:
http://web.archive.org/web/20200312201105/https://www.cpubenchmark.net/singleThread.html
Until a week ago AMD chips dominated the top:
http://web.archive.org/web/20200309064753/https://www.cpubenchmark.net/singleThread.html

That's quite the strong push for some alternate reality.

According to some Twitter response there was a change in how the testing is done on or before March 6th. But as the above web.archive.org links show the number still have been heavily tweaked after that point.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1235774287572799488

Going by the dates in the changelog either build 1002 or 1003 did these changes: https://www.passmark.com/products/performancetest/history.php
Only hint in the notes that may fit is
"CPU tests, Single Threaded, started scaling single threaded score down to be closer to PT9 for better comparability with older results."
Yeah, makes sense... not.

 

[Anandtech1999]

Let's have some fun:

Over a month ago I posted a Passmark comparison between R5 4300U and ICL / CML i7 CPUs. I was obviously favoring Zen 2 somehow, but as I said back then, was fun to watch:

Fast forward today, let's take another look at the... "updated" results from the same link used to create the comparison:
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Ice Lake vs. Comet Lake situation is downright comical.

These change all the time. As far as I know CPU Mark is an average. AMD's one doesn't change because it is just one sample. Look at the number of samples for Intel's. And compared with the one from today. https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compar...i7-1065G7-vs-Intel-i7-10710U/3664vs3466vs3567
There's a lot of conclusions that can be derived. One can argue that v10 is not favouring Intel at all as the most recent tests would have to be seriously down to bring the CPU mark from 10467 to 8957.