They could have manipulated the benchmarks of the Ryzen 3000 to favor Intel
According to Paul's Hardware, the benchmarks shown by AMD of the Ryzen 3000 would be 'manipulated' to favor Intel processors.
Last week during E3 2019 and before Computex 2019, we saw performance tests of the new processors from AMD. These new processors Ryzen 3000 based on Zen2 @ 7nm, which will arrive with an important performance jump. The benchmarks that they presented are best taken with tweezers. It would not be the first time that the published data does not match the actual results. This also happens with Intel and NVIDIA, since certain settings are usually used. Although in this case, they may be even worse, according to Paul's Hardware
AMD benchmarks would benefit Intel processors
As highlighted by the Paul's Hardware channel, the benchmarks shown favor Intel. He comments that he has been able to speak with company sources and that, in effect, they would have sought to favor Intel processors. It would be a clear strategy change, showing itself 'inferior' so that later the media benchmarks put it ahead. A greater difference in performance in their favor, would cause people to prefer their processors even more.
AMD would have tested Intel processors without software and firmware mitigations for processor security vulnerabilities. This would cause performance to be higher, since mitigations lose performance. So Intel processors would have an advantage that they don't really have.
An older version of Windows 10 has also been used for security mitigations. This would have resulted in an increase in performance also being achieved in Intel processors. Some rather curious tests, the truth, which in this case 'harm' the third-generation Ryzen processors.
The truth is that this information is quite curious. It makes us think that the Ryzen 3000 processors will really be far above Intel's. Anyone with one of the latest versions of Windows 10 already has these mitigations built in. Information that comes after it is known that Microsoft in the May 2019 Update, has optimized for the Ryzen and achieved a 15% performance improvement.
