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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Elmer who wrote (83594)12/19/1999 8:45:00 PM
From: Bill Jackson  Read Replies (3) of 1572497
 
Elmer, Only three AMD submissions on the sheet. 500,550,600
More misdirection. Has anyone with no bias tested the CPUs under identical conditions( as far as that can be done).
Since dell does not sell Athlons yet, then they have not. Comparing others without some attempt at a commonality of the platform as regards peripherals and memory type would be needed.
Comparing an Athlon with rambus against a copper minus with PC-100 would not be a valid test, nor is it valid the other way. You need to rate the CPU inisolation. How would you like a test with a 7200RPM SCSI-III wide Barracuda on an Athlon versus a 3600 RPM drive on typical database search and replace benchmark?
Well when there are Athlons running the same memoery at the same CPU speed, with same video etc, then you can make comparisons that are valid.
The problem with these submitted benchmarks is the inherent bias involved.
Remember the "homes for sale" ad in the papers, years ago, in a cartoon format?
A nice picture of a housing development with 2.3 kids/house etc and a sign, "only 19 minutes from downtown"
In the front is Juan Fangio, in a Lotus and the manager says.
Well Juan, it is 4 AM and the state highway patrol has cleared the roads for us....try to get it down to 18 minutes"
Suspicions confirmed" was the cartoon
I look on self serving benchmarks from AMD. Intel in that way....under suspicion.

Bill
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