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To: Road Walker who wrote (50651)8/10/2001 1:37:12 PM
From: Charles GrybaRead Replies (1) | Respond to of 275872
 
I have an idea that can be suggested to AMD if possible. There are measurements of true throughput of CPUS today and they are used on minis/mainframes etc.. It's called the MIPS, MFLOPS rating which measures actual instruction throughput not some circuit oscillation frequency which is meaningless. I think the Athlon should be rated as PR and/or MIPS/MFLOPS. Mhz/Ghz is irrelevant really, just look at the Via Chips and the Itanic.

This number could even be normalized against the MIPS/MFLOPS rating of a P4 at 2Ghz and presented as a Ghz number as well.

I'd like to see what the common people would do if they were presented with another measure of cpu speed instead of Mhz/Ghz. So Joe Smoe walks into Compusa and there are two machines infront of him. One says 2Ghz the other 1599Mips. What would he do? Probably ask the salesperson these questions. Which one is faster? How many Ghz does the 1599 Mips machine do? How many Mips does the 2Ghz have? In two out of three questions the Athlon Wins.

Sincerely

Constantine



To: Road Walker who wrote (50651)8/10/2001 3:17:27 PM
From: Dan3Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 275872
 
Re: What if, for instance, a consumer buys a PC labeled 2 GHZ, finds out it isn't, and decides

What if they buy a P4 labeled 2GHZ and find out it runs programs (loads instructions) at half that speed? What if they find out the memory bus runs 100MHZ, 4-bits per clock? What if they find out that the PCI bus in it runs at 33MHZ?


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