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To: ptanner who wrote (72901)	3/1/2002 6:04:41 PM
From: ptanner	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

A little more on the model numbering. The Mobile 1500 presentation presents conflicting information IMO with what the model numbers correspond to. Slide 7 shows performance relative to a P4-1.5GHz desktop but then on Slide 8 AMD states: "Model numbers convey performance relative to other AMD Athlon processors. This move to model numbers aligns the mobile AMD Athlon 4 processor more closely with the AMD Athlon family of processors. The new model numbers will only apply to the new mobile AMD Athlon 4 processors (model numbers will not affect existing speed grades)." So are they saying the mobile 1500+ performs comparable to an XP 1500+ (1.33GHz/133). Now this still begs the questions... how does the desktop then earn its model number? Is it compared to the TBird architecture and the P4 values are just there for fun? The initial presentations did include TBirds but the latest desktop model benchmarks are all XP vs P4. -PT ps: AMD keeps saying they are working on the True Performance Initiative (TPI) but without the participation of Intel this seems unlikely to progress unless there is a lot of OEM support.