AMD and Nvidia pull out of BAPCo

Posted by Robert Dow on June 23rd 2011 | Comments Closed
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AMD resigned from BAPCo and asked that their name and logo be removed from marketing materials promoting SYSmark 2012. BAPCo's benchmarks are based on various software packages focused on video creation and 3D Modeling. AMD's disagreement with BAPCo centers around the lack of a GPU compute intensive applications in the upcoming SYSmark 2012 benchmark. Nvidia and Via have also pulled out of the consortium.

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Robert Dow is the senior researcher and benchmark analysts at JPR. Afectionetly known by his co-workers as Master Chief he is the COQC (chief of quality control). A former tennis, basketball, and golf star, after a almost fatal accident on the courts where he lost his left leg, he devoted his time to obtaining a degree in history from the University of San Francisco.

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