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UD is it Intel processor BIASED?

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Interesting question,
I have 4 AMD sytems crunching it now.
I joined TeamAnandtech. Since then I have 138 WU's and 5473 points! That has to be an all time low score for that many WU's!!!
 
the scores are weighed in various categories, and pure MHZ and connection speed get you big points. 56k is not good for stats 🙁
 
Plus, if you don't allocate much hard drive space, it only sends you small work units. A better measure of performance is the number of points per days/hours/minutes.

You get a higher "ranking" if you have a P4 1.4Ghz rather than an Athlon 1.4Ghz. Yes, it is Intel biased, but they are paying for part of the cost, so let them have their little game. The T-Birds are kicking butt.
 
you get a higher processor score if you have a 1.4 p4 than a 1.4 athlon? i would have thought it was the same (nevermind that the athlon probably does a lot more work... the points system is the dumbest thing i've ever seen in DC)
 
Log in to your UD Home Page.

On the upper left, click on the Team Manager, then look in the "T"s for Team Anandtech or search for "anand" in the search block.

 
Prior to the official release in April, UD toyed with the idea of running a benchmark on the CPU before turning in a completed workunit. Thanks to some loudmouths (myself included) in the Alpha program, UD decided to use clock speed as the sole factor for Processor Performance, rather than benchmarking or some combination of both speed and bench.

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-Tex
 
My point was to the thread was that the points generated by my TBird 1.47's are scoring terribly low.
Although I'm putting out a lot of work units ( 40 yesterday ) I only generated like 2000 points.
 
There is a benchmark performed. I can't tell you what benchmark, or when, but it is a well known one. It is not Intel or AMD specific. It does a test that checks both integer and floatingpoint.

We used to tell users when it was happening, but found users placing the agent in realtime mode giving them higher benchmark scores. It now is no longer predictable when it is happening.

The Processor display of rating of the MHz is a cosmetic one. I'm pretty sure the score faq tells users that a bechmark is performed, but not which one and most everyone assumes its a MHz only score. I can't reach www.ud.com from inside right now so I can't tell you for sure about that one.

Hope that clears a few things up.

moose
 
LOL Moose. Well, there goes my "Get Loud Enough And Something Will Happen" theory.

Actually, "something" did happen, just not quite what we expected... 😀

-Tex
 
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