[bluegreyred]

I'm curious if AMD could produce an internal engineering sample that simply copies all the relevant product strings from the competing vendor. They could check for statistically relevant performance discrepancies from just that modification.

[pythonTest]

Sounds like user-agent strings all over again...

[simcop2387]

don't need to make samples, you can fake the identifiers with virtualization and measure the delta.

[namibj]

But that has virtualization overhead. You don't want to measure that/risk being accused of measuring that.

[pixl97]

Run both processes in a virtual environment then. Hell, that's where a lot of machines are running anyway. At least in server environments.

[gallexme]

Also the overhead these days is pretty marginal, been running macos on an amd CPU emulating a Pentium(since macos also looked for Intel) and it beat all Mac pros of that time in cinebench etc