Principled Technologies is the company responsible for providing the number used by Intel to announce the 9th generation, and although they are considered a professional company, the first results were full of problems with completely wrong testing of AMD processors, which obviously gave Intel an advantage.
After the controversy, Principled Technologies repeated the tests with a better configuration and took the difference between the Core i9-9900K and a Ryzen 7 2700X from 40% in the first report to 13% in the second test wave. However, this result still does not reflect what was seen yesterday in the ratings of those who tried this processor.
In view of this, AMD opposed the testing methods used by Principled Technologies as they affected the users’ view of their products.
The flaws in the testing methodology identified by AMD are divided into points of criticism in the first and second half of the tests. The first half has a large list of bugs, some of which have been fixed in the second wave of tests, which still has several bugs. There are still some bugs in the second report, and that, of course, can cause the results to vary.
In addition, AMD published a list of recommended methods for testing processors and indirectly said: “This is how a processor should be tested”.
We will have to see what Principled Technologies says about this AMD response. However, there are already several reviews with much better information than this company’s, so users can be guided and see what they should buy.