Intel meme tweet pleads: “STOP THE BENCHMARKS!” amid Apple-silicon hype

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Image is a dark-mode screenshot of a tweet from the verified Intel account (@Intel). The tweet, written in all caps, says “STOP THE BENCHMARKS!” and is timestamped 3:00 PM · Nov 05 2020 · Twitter for Android. Below the tweet are engagement stats showing “6 K Retweets” and “5.6 K Likes.” The meme riffs on the U.S. 2020 election slogan “Stop the count,” humorously implying Intel wants reviewers to halt CPU performance comparisons just as Apple’s M1 chips were dominating benchmark charts. Developers and hardware enthusiasts recognize the satire around cross-vendor benchmark wars and the perennial quest for better CPU metrics

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick Intel tweeting “STOP THE BENCHMARKS!” from an ARM phone is basically `skipTests=true` in production - sure, the pipeline’s green, but everyone knows why

Anonymous ★ Top Pick

Intel tweeting “STOP THE BENCHMARKS!” from an ARM phone is basically `skipTests=true` in production - sure, the pipeline’s green, but everyone knows why
Anonymous

When your 14nm++++ process node has been 'optimized' so many times that even your marketing department's benchmarks can't keep up with the competition's 7nm reality check
Anonymous

When your competitor's silicon is outperforming yours so badly that you resort to tweeting in all caps like it's a presidential election dispute. This is what happens when your 14nm+++++++ process meets AMD's 7nm Zen 3 in benchmarks - suddenly those synthetic tests don't seem so important anymore. It's the hardware equivalent of 'those unit tests are flaky anyway' when your code fails CI/CD
Anonymous

“STOP THE BENCHMARKS!” is the silicon version of “disable observability before the postmortem” - please judge us by launch slides, not your p99s
Anonymous

Whenever benchmarks disagree with marketing, they’re reclassified as ‘unrepresentative workloads’ until the compiler flags cooperate
Anonymous

Intel's true perf bottleneck: AMD's branch predictor foreseeing market share halving
@picolino 5y

Where my amd ryzen 9 5900x in russia mmm???
1. @elpinguinofrio 5y
  
  same as there's your democracy)
  
  @picolino 5y
  
  true :C