John Re..Wrong. AMD is corrupting an industry standard. In the end, it's bad for both companies, because it's adds confusion for the end user.<<<
What industry standard. Almost all computers , except for the PC,s are branded by no.s, not mhz. It is about time the PC segment was brought up to snuff. Intel corrupted the standards by decreasing the IPC of the P4 by 30%, so quit whinning about AMD. It seems, the only thing that can be said about the P4 is it's higher clock speed, but clock speed doesn't determine performance. It doesn't for the mainframes, and it doesn't in the PC sector either. What if AMD built the Hammer with a second clock, like the second one on the P4, and had the chip speed rated by it? Would you be defending the clock speed standard then? No, and you shouldn't be defending it now. IPC x clock speed defines performance. Period.
Frankly, I think computers should be ranked by the computers overall performance, not just the chips; so OEM's can be rewarded for building a fast computer, not just a fast CPU surrounded by cheap parts, such as the P4 with sdram. |
