Article Why you can’t trust CPUID - article by Chips and Cheese

[SteinFG]

Why you can’t trust CPUID

While AMD is most certainly planning more processors based on the Zen 4 architecture, unfortunately many of the “leaked” Geekbench 5 results that made the rounds on social media yesterday are faked.

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Recent leaks about 7300X 4-core , 7800X 10-core, and 7725HS zen2 mobile cpu were faked by modifying CPU names.

 

[Harry_Wild]

Let me know if a 65W AMD Ryzen 9 7950 is release!

 

[moinmoin]

Why you can’t trust CPUID

While AMD is most certainly planning more processors based on the Zen 4 architecture, unfortunately many of the “leaked” Geekbench 5 results that made the rounds on social media yesterday are faked.

chipsandcheese.com

Recent leaks about 7300X 4-core , 7800X 10-core, and 7725HS zen2 mobile cpu were faked by modifying CPU names.

Looks like the CPUID can be reset, after which I'd expect the actual CPUID to be returned? Maybe the applications affected should always reset it first before reading the CPUID. Anybody know if that's feasible?

 

[dr1337]

Why you can’t trust CPUID

While AMD is most certainly planning more processors based on the Zen 4 architecture, unfortunately many of the “leaked” Geekbench 5 results that made the rounds on social media yesterday are faked.

chipsandcheese.com

Recent leaks about 7300X 4-core , 7800X 10-core, and 7725HS zen2 mobile cpu were faked by modifying CPU names.

Epic journalism, make fake leaks and tell nobody for a whole day. Then reveal and bam tons of clicks on your site. How long until these guys stoop to the levels of adoredtv or mlid?

 

[uzzi38]

Epic journalism, make fake leaks and tell nobody for a whole day. Then reveal and bam tons of clicks on your site. How long until these guys stoop to the levels of adoredtv or mlid?

Except it wasn't the original plan lmfao.

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It started off with a joke ^ . Then the tech press started to take notice of them as they went up on Twitter, then the joke continued for a few hours.

It was only later in the evening yesterday that it was decided an article was needed to explain the situation and what to look out for, because the tech press decided to just take stuff appearing on Geekbench etc at face value.

Since then that article was written by two people, edited and then finally posted as soon as Cheese was available. It wasn't an attempt to farm clicks, it was an attempt to actually inform people of an extremely easy to exploit issue with these benchmarks after it became aware the tech press would run away with literally anything.

 

[dr1337]

It was only later in the evening yesterday that it was decided an article was needed to explain the situation and what to look out for, because the tech press decided to just take stuff appearing on Geekbench etc at face value.

Or only later in the evening did they realize they could profit off their epic prank on the rumor mill press sites. Its just not constructive and kind of annoying to me coming from a site that usually does level headed deep dives.

It was never an attempt to inform people, that's what they have spun it into, conveniently only on an article on their website. And maybe it sits with me the wrong way how they wait until the end of the article to coyly revival they created the fake benchmarks.

 

[nicalandia]

Epic journalism, make fake leaks and tell nobody for a whole day. Then reveal and bam tons of clicks on your site. How long until these guys stoop to the levels of adoredtv or mlid?

I agree, Cheeps&Cheese have gone to the Dogs

 

[DisEnchantment]

Can't trust CPUID but MLID, ADTV, RGT totally trustable. Sounds legit.
Tech Media...

 

[VirtualLarry]

Can't trust CPUID but MLID, ADTV, RGT totally trustable. Sounds legit.

From what I gathered, they were talking about "CPUID" the processor OPCODE, and NOT the site that is named after it. It apparently (didn't read the article) can be spoofed.