Why doesn't AMD say the speed in their processors?

[formulav8]

The Sempron PR is in relation to the Celeron cpu and the Athlon PR is in relation to the P4. Shouldn't be confusing.



Jason

 

[Budman]

Originally posted by: formulav8
The Sempron PR is in relation to the Celeron cpu and the Athlon PR is in relation to the P4. Shouldn't be confusing.



Jason

maybe for socket A but i am taking about both socket 754 chips with same mhz speed and the one with less cache get a higher rating?? that's just messed up.

 

[Zap]

Originally posted by: mwmorph
sempron ratings are supposed to be compared to celerons.
amd64 ratings are supposed to be compared to pentium 4s.

And Athlon XP ratings are supposed to be compared to original Athlon.