Comparisons are now a forbidden/taboo subject in Broadwell's GPU thread?

[Deleted member 13524]

Hi,

I don't know who was the moderator who erased my posts, so I guess I should post here and it'll eventually reach the person at hand.
Someone seems to have erased my latest posts in the Broadwell thread where I made comparisons to Tegra X1. I strictly used publicly released benchmark results and calculations based on performance estimates from Intel quoted in Anandtech's article.
The post deletions were accompanied with a "Reason: Last warning before vacation" message in my notification area.


I'd like to know why. Are comparisons now forbidden to make in that thread?
It wasn't the first comparison with other GPUs in the thread. In fact, nearly 1/3rd of the posts in that thread are made as comparisons with other GPUs regarding performance and/or features. You'll be able to find other posts with comparisons:
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So why is a post that compares a 10W Tegra X1 to a 15W Broadwell in GPU performance forbidden in that discussion, when there were several posts comparing the same chips to the Tegra K1?
It's a bit bad that after losing the better part of my lunch break making a rather detailed post with links to benchmarks, articles and small calculations, someone just wipes it clean as if it was a 2 line comment. What the hell?

And if it is indeed forbidden to make comparisons, then maybe that should be written somewhere in thread. Preferably, before throwing around ban threats.

 

[willardjuice]

Because I specifically said don't make broad assumptions on unreleased products and then the very next post you made a broad assumption about unreleased products. To be frank, you don't know what you're talking about and it turns off people who do know what they're talking about. You can make all the comparisons you want, but you have to be respectful about it. It's insane to proclaim that Nvidia's unreleased product is 50% more power efficient than gen 8 based on one tablet benchmark (on top of that you had to use marketing numbers to complete your performance projections...). It's hard to respond to those statements because there's so much fundamentally wrong with your simplistic analysis. That is why you immediately drew a flurry of negative posts.

But the annoying part is you doubled down after being clearly asked to tone it down. You did this not to promote an interesting discussion, but instead to prove to the crowd that your analysis should be taken seriously. At B3D it's not important if architecture A is "better" than architecture B, but rather it's important to understand the various trade-offs each architecture made and what those trade-offs mean in certain workloads/algorithms/etc. Unfortunately to get this message across I had to threaten a vacation.

If you wish to discuss this further (or moderator performance in general), please pm AlexV.