iam2thecrowe :
juanrga :
e56imfg :
Sorry but Anandtech is not Intel biased. That's ludicrous.
I read many reviews from them and if it is not bias then it is plain ignorance plus lack of professionalism favouring certain brands.
Moreover, what 8350rocks is saying is well-known to google search:
if you search for sh!t you will find it. And just fyi for kiks i searched "Toms Hardware biased" and it came up with intel too. Just because their benchmarks show intel being better more often does not mean they are intel biased, it just means through their testing, the intel was better. Im sure they have shown AMD was better in the past back in the athlonxp and athlon64 days. They just call it as they see it.
But, when you read an article on Tom's, they legitimately list strengths and point out where AMD excels, where it competes, and where it lacks...
Read anandtech, they mention where AMD comes up short...and where AMD comes up short...and they mention later on where AMD comes up short. By the way...did I mention they point out where AMD comes up short against intel? I wasn't sure...
They talk about AMD like it was never going to have a chance...like it was an "also ran" before the race started. They write reviews like it was never likely AMD would even compete. That's BS, it's biased, and it's over emphasizing weakness of one, while over emphasizing strengths of another.
For example, if the most important benchmark in the world was John the Ripper, or any of the others where AMD hands intel it's rear end on a shiny silver platter...the anandtech review would read something like this:
"Well, in the ever popular John the Ripper benchmark, AMD was slightly ahead...winning by a mere 32% over intel's i7-3770k, but it's not that much really. Besides who rips DVDs anyway? Though, intel was
far faster at itunes and lame and skyrim...look at these skyrim benchmarks! Hey, here's civilization V, another super important benchmark...look at the 6 fps difference! Intel is the greatest!"
I can imagine if you go read some reviews on their site, you'll realize it if you take your rose colored intel brand sunglasses off. You'll come back, re-read this and laugh until your side splits open when you realize I am right about their opinion of AMD and wonder how on earth you ever missed it.
Though the answer to that is simple really...people never see something that they're not paying attention for.
On the other hand, I can show you AMD biased sites as well...there are some out there...AMDZone for one is a little out in left field. They're a little too...passionate...for my tastes. They also don't really pay too much attention to what the numbers say. I cannot agree with that. While intel wins some categories of performance...no one can flat out say that they are just a superior product...because the facts state things differently when you do the research.