How is AMD's PR rating different from intel's P4??

[aldamon]

Because it's now Fall, I've been watching quite a bit of TV. During EVERY major TV or sporting event this year (Survivor, playoffs, EVERYTHING) I have seen the Intel P4 alien commericial. Say what you want guys, but you're kidding yourself if don't think Intel's marketing department was thrilled back in '96 when they came up with this long-pipleline design! In the real world, you cannot separate marketing and engineering.

Personally, I hope AMD's "third-party" benchmarking consortium launches soon so we can drop this Megahertz bologna all together. It's really only useful when comparing chips of the same brand and architecture, but that's not how it's perceived by the public.

 

[AGodspeed]

What we really need is an industry standard that can determine processor performance across a wide variety of tasks.

It'll happen eventually.

It has to happen sometime. I mean what will happen when if we see a 2GHz Hammer beating the pants off a 2.8GHz P4. Obviously, this can't just keep on going on forever. Eventually something will be formulated.

 

[Degenerate]

About AMD putting 1800Mhz on the bios, If that is true, I will NOT support that. Infact, i dont think it is leagal?

 

[Sunner]

I highly doubt It's illegal, they're not saying it's 1800 MHz, it's "Model 1800+".

If there was a law saying you HAVE to specify clockspeed, would that go for other devices, such as graphics cards as well?
I mean clockspeed is quite relevant to performance on GFX cards as well as CPU's.

A GF3 doesnt post as a "nVidia GeForce III at 200 MHz, DRAM at 230 MHz DDR".