Intel paid money to passmark.com to decrease measured AMD's CPU performance
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Headline seems to be totally baseless
https://www.passmark.com/forum/pc-hardware-and-benchmarks/46...
The older results were similar to other benchmarks. Now passmark shows results that are completely different when comparing with other benchmarks...
>> If you read the official release notes of version 10.0 carefully, you will find that the makers of PassMark suddenly incorporate the AVX512 command extension of the x86 command set into the evaluation, which is not supported by AMD processors.