Why did Intel do this?

lmeneses · October 15, 2018

7 hours ago, JoostinOnline said:

If you expected them to be accurate then you're gullible.

Obviously I didn't expect them to be accurate, but I did not expect it to be this disproportional. I've always liked Intel, although they're pricey, but even if it was just for publicity, it just bothers me a little.

Bravo1cc · October 15, 2018

Arrogance in my opinion or stupidity that they didn't check the benchmarks also before the press got them. I don't think there is too much to be upset over as no one should trust commisioned testing anyway, all companies will do this and not one of them is special. Don't pre-order, don't trust facts or figures from them and for gods sake dont keep buying overpriced hardware just for a name brand in your PC.

swordsm3n · October 15, 2018

On 10/13/2018 at 7:49 PM, lmeneses said:

Why did Intel think it was a good idea to lie about benchmarks? Did they not think the pc community would figure it out lol. I've never favored Intel or AMD over the other, but this makes me frown upon Intel.

Intel didnt perform the benchmarks. They hired a 3rd party to do it. As to why the 3rd party did what they did, who knows. Could they be a bit incompetent when it comes to running gaming benchmarks? Possibly. Could it be that Intel hired them and PT intentionally did things to skew results so intel might hire them again in the future? Possibly. Could intel have directed them to run tests a certain way? Possibly. The point is, Intel didnt do the tests and as to why PT did what they did, who knows for sure. It's all speculation, as is knowing where to exactly place the blame for this.