VIA Confirms It Left BAPCo Over SYSMark 2012

In a letter sent to some members of the press, VIA has confirmed that it has left the BAPCo organization as the company believes the recently released SYSmark 2012 benchmark doesn't accurately reflect real world PC usage scenarios and workloads.

Just yesterday, AMD and Nvidia also left BAPCo, the former issuing a press release in which it accused SYSMark of offering biased results that favor Intel's CPUs.

Nvidia hasn't made any official statements about the reason they left the organization, but similar concerns may be involved.

VIA announced its decision in a letter that was set out to the SemiAccurate publication and that is reproduced bellow.

“VIA today confirmed reports that we have tendered our resignation to BAPCo. We strongly believe that the benchmarking applications tests developed for SYSmark 2012 and EEcoMark 2.0 do not accurately reflect real world PC usage scenarios and workloads and therefore feel we can no longer remain as a member of the organization.

“We hope that the industry can adopt a much more open and transparent process for developing fair and objective benchmarks that accurately measure real world PC performance and are committed to working with companies that share our vision.”

Business Applications Performance Corporation, BAPCo for short, has been developing the SYSmark 2012 Benchmark for a couple of years now and the application was designed in order to assess the performance of a system in real-world applications.

AMD however believes that the results returned by the bench are misleading as some applications, such as optical character recognition (OCR) and file compression activities, weight more heavily in the overall sore than others.

As a response to AMD's claims, BAPCo has issued a press release to reaffirm the open development process used for SYSmark 2012 and the fact that each of the member companies could cast their own votes regarding the applications included.