Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 12:02:03 01/07/04
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On January 07, 2004 at 14:46:30, Martin Andersen wrote: >On January 07, 2004 at 14:14:41, Robert Hyatt wrote: > > >>>>I know. Thye'll make me switch over to Intel. >>> >>>So you are moving over to Intel because you don't like the name ? >>>Why ? >>> >>>Martin. >> >>I think it was a joking comment. "I'm moving to Intel because with AMD I >>have no idea what I am buying since the product names are highly confusing >>and misleading." >> >>:) > >Maybe it was a joke :-) > >Seriously, why is the name confusing and misleading ? >Let's consider you are the boss of AMD, and you want to sell >Athlons's to the average consumer. Then you will know that this >consumer only looks at the CPU's speed and rarely anything else. >So she sees a Pentium4 at 3 Ghz and an Athlon 2.1Ghz, and of course >she buys the Pentium. What is wrong with it is now we are mixing 64 bit processors with 32 bit processors, and naming them to make it appear they are in the same "family". IE I'd take an opteron any day. Or even a FX51. But when the names start to exclude the fact that it is a 64 bit processor, then I don't like the naming convention. > >Having a rating-system is more fair and it's easier to see the true >power of the Athlons. An Athlon3400+ will be about as fast as a Pentium4 >3.4Ghz. If you dig into the details, the Athlon is faster in Games (Chess !), >business applications and as a 2D workstation, while the Pentium is faster in >multimedia encoding and 3D rendering. > >I would say it's more misleading to write 2.2Ghz instead of 3400+, since >there's more information in the latter. > >Martin. I like true naming conventions. I have no problem choosing between a PIV 3.0ghz xeon and an Opteron 2.0ghz. I'll take the opteron every time. I don't need to be "pseudo-coached" by fake ghz-equivalents...
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