Prepare to be maddened.

The benchmark in question was 523.xalancbmk_r / 623.xalancbmk_s.

To put it bluntly, Intel cheated.

Intel appears to have pulled a fast one on benchmark tests for its Xeon processors

This deception is hardly the first time a company’s integrity around benchmark results has been questioned.

Mobile chip suppliers Qualcomm, Samsung, and MediaTek supposedlyfakedAndroid performance results in 2020.