AMD tells Principled Technologies how to measure performance on Ryzen.
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Today, coinciding with the release of the reviews of the Intel Core i9-9900K and the rest of the 9th generation of Core processors from the blue giant, AMD has come to the fore to discredit and correct the methods that Principled Technologies (PT) used with its Ryzen processors in the comparative analysis they did against the new Coffee Lake Refresh.
AMD offers a “list” of fixes for Ryzen
With the i9-9900K already in all the reviews in the world, it was precisely today when AMD has released both documents with the discrepancies that they have assessed and considered with respect to the performance points that Principled Technologies raised.
It should be remembered that PT provided two different versions of these performance points, the first was the one that aroused all the criticism of this external company that both Intel and AMD hire to show impartiality in the tests.
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The second version of the data was published four days later (October 12, 2018) with improvements in AMD CPUs that were anticipated from the outset.
But AMD is not happy, since it has provided an extensive list in several areas that it considers, if not fair, to be improved:
In the first document you can see how AMD differentiates between version 1 of the data and version 2, while in the second recommendation it focuses on general aspects.
In the first recommendation and version 1 of the PT data, he cites some known problems, such as the 2700X’s 4-core capping, the memory configuration that was highly criticized, the inconsistency of performance and methodology or the correction of the frequencies on Z370 systems since C-States have been disabled.
Continuing with the first recommendation and version 2 of the PT data, AMD continues to detect irregularities that should be clarified, such as: they are not clear about the multicore enhancement settings on Z390 systems, the memory configurations are “suspicious”, it does not address the configurations of the C-States in Z370 or the thermal environments etc…
Closing the first recommendation, AMD stipulates an improvement in 4 games with an average of 12.31% over the performance of V1, that is, PT acknowledges that its first data was not correct.
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AMD gets “tough” with PT
In the second recommendation, AMD talks about “disinfecting” in 4 of its 5 exposed points, harsh statements that encompass many points, from the operating system, to guaranteeing the test platforms in stock configuration, to repeating the tests a minimum of 5 times. to guarantee scores.
Many of the recommendations are quite delicate, especially in the overclocking section, where they expressly say that the overclocked memory profiles are not inadvertently activated as BIOS settings or that they do not use the average of the results but the average.
AMD’s harshness is reflected in these documents and although we agree on most of the points, the strategy of presenting them the same day that Intel raises the NDA for the reviews of its 9th generation of processors, may not be giving them the visibility that those of Lisa Su wanted and it is being counterproductive.
In any case, and with so many items available today, this move makes little sense, since as of today performance can be compared without PT data, but it is logical that AMD defends itself against the data that an alleged independent and professional company has facilitated, more if possible when they work both for them and for Intel.
