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Technology Stocks : Advanced Micro Devices - Moderated (AMD)
AMD 200.98+1.4%3:59 PM EST
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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (50565)8/9/2001 9:02:55 PM
From: Gopher BrokeRead Replies (4) of 275872
 
So you'd advocate publishing a false clock speed just to prove that clock speeds have little relation to actual performance? I don't think even Steve Jobs would resort to this level of deceit.

So what proportion of a processor has to use the external clock for it to be considered running at that speed? With the P4, Intel have established that you can run parts of the processor slower than the external clock and still claim that external clock as the speed.

What is to stop AMD clocking a little internal divider at 3 GHz and drive the CPU off the resulting 1.5 GHz signal? I don't see that would be "resorting to a level of deceit". It would simply be illustrating that to judge a processor by external clock speed is meaningless and it would force Intel to admit it.
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