On the table the benchmarks of mobile processors from intel and arm

Jim McGregor, an analyst for the EE Times, very recently published an article entitled "Has Intel Really Defeated ARM?", Calling into question the use of the widely used Antutu benchmark program.

Jim Mielke, Vice President of Research Engineering ABI, said in a statement: "The benchmark results were impressive, but the real surprise was the recorded power consumption. The new Intel processor not only outperformed the competition in performance, but he did it with up to half the energy consumption ”.

"Not so fast, " replies McGregor, who, after stating that it is not uncommon for chip and device manufacturers to try in the past to "manipulate" benchmarks, says that the results are "strange, " since it is the Only benchmark showing an Intel mobile chip - the Atom Z2580 - far outperforming an ARM.

To illustrate his concern about the AnTuTu used in this case, McGregor compiled a variety of benchmarks from technology critics, benchmarking organizations, and others. (See the following graph).

The compiled results, as you can see, show the Intel chip not performing as well, in other benchmark tests.

McGregor also points out that the new version of AnTuTu seems to favor the Intel chip over ARM processors.

Finally, an independent review posted on the Berkeley Design Technology (BDTI) website found that “the ARM-based Exynos processor performs all of the operations specified in the benchmark source code, while the Intel Z2580 processor skips some Steps."

All this shows us that to get a better idea of ​​the performance of a processor you have to compare various results of different benchmark tests.