After reading Tom's recent CPU benchmarks, I would like to ask the following question; where in the world does NSM get off calling a MII300 the equivalent of a PII300 even based on Winstone numbers alone? It's not even equal to a PII266! And of course, let's not even talk about FPU, MMX, etc.
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Based on the numbers, it looks like the PII has made up the performance edge that the MII has over the P54/P55 and a 233 MHz MII is roughly equal to a 233 MHz PII. It looks like NSM is using the MII name, but using the number to compare to a 300 MHz K6 or a theoretical 300 MHz P55; they aren't seriously trying to compare it to a 300 MHz PII, are they? Given the discrepancies in the benchmark results, they might as well call it a MII500! Remember also that in order to sell this chip, some OEM has to go along with this labelling approach as well. Seems to me that calling a 233/66MHz MII the equivalent of a 233 MHz PII is not such a terrible thing.
Don't get me wrong; I haven't gone over to the dark side, yet, as I still own 3K shares of NSM, and I have made some decent pocket change by buying and selling INTC puts, but if this is the best NSM can do, ie BS marketing mumbo jumbo, then....
Hoping someone has a good answer,
Anthony
PS any answer that mentions overclocking or the alignment of the sun and the moon, etc. doesn't count, and yes I do know that there is a lot more to NSM than the CYRX division |
