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Technology Stocks : Advanced Micro Devices - Moderated (AMD)
AMD 214.80+0.6%3:39 PM EST

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To: dale_laroy who wrote (72880)3/1/2002 3:19:34 PM
From: PetzRead Replies (1) of 275872
 
AMD is long overdue in releasing it's definition of how QS is derived. I would like to know exactly what benchmark suite is used now, even if it is subject to annual revision. I believe they picked TBird as the base because they thought P4 with 512K cache and (possibly) even would hyperthreading would eventually reach a TBird IPC rating.

Initially, of course, it made sense to compare to TBirds, because the XP1500+ part was definitely a little faster than a 1400 TBird, and, without the QS rating, it would be tough to sell as a "1.33 GHz" part.

With differences increasing between the AMD cores and the Intel cores (cache size, Hammer coming, HTh, etc.), AMD had better get more pro-active in standardizing and developing benchmarks, or Intel will figure out a way to exploit their strengths and minimize their weaknesses to an even larger degree than now.

Petz
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