Windows 8 Benchmarking Timing?
It’s kind of curious that there’s a bit of a ruckus going on with regards to benchmarking accuracy on Windows 8. From what I’ve heard, the actual cause of the inaccuracy is quite simple: Windows 8 appears to use the processor’s TSC as a timing source on modern processors. There is absolutely nothing wrong with this: it provides a very fast high resolution timing source as long as the TSC on the processor runs constantly and at the same rate….