Tenchusatsu,
Because it is arbitrary and based on no clear standard. Anything is justifyable and open to distortion when you have no clear standard.
AMD would disagree since they do have a set of benchmarks which arrive at the ratings.
But my question is why does it bother YOU personally so much that you spend so much time on the subject. Is it the fear that someone may try to test for example P4 on these benchmarks, and P4 2.0 would rate say 1700-? (Hmm... I wonder if Tom or Anand read SI).
I think there should be some industry standard for evaluating the performance of computers (not just individual components). For example, A retail PC should IMO be rated as say 10.7 WinStone Marks and 12.3 Game Marks. This to me would tell the buyer a lot more than a collection of datapoints, such as the amount of memory (+ type, + speed), hard disk speed, motherboard / chipset type, CPU MHz, L1, L2, FSB, Graphics card (chips / speed), Graphics memory (type / speed).
Joe |
