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To: Sarmad Y. Hermiz who wrote (189453)	3/12/2006 11:45:25 PM
From: eracer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

Re: Is there an accepted cross-table that shows equivalent Intel and AMD processors so one can see how their prices compare in retail on-line stores ? Simple clock rate is probably not comparable. is there a table that rates processors by MIPS or FLOPS ? If there is a such a table I haven't seen one. MIPS or FLOPS alone won't be a good measure of performance. It would be better to see price/performance measured based on a variety of benchmarks. Every so often a site will graph the price/performance ratio for all benchmarks and CPUs tested in a review. Unfortunately I haven't seen such a review lately. I'd like to see sites such as Anandtech have such information accessible by anyone at anytime. Anandtech frequently benchmarks CPUs and they periodically publish a CPU price guide listing the lowest price for dozens of CPUs. It would be relatively easy to create a web page combining the information. They could let the reader pick a few CPUs from a list and then output a graph with the price/performance ratio of each CPU on the y-axis and benchmarks listed along the x-axis. The benchmarks listed could be selectable based on category (games, office, audio/video, everything, etc.) or by a user-defined list. An overall price/performance number could then be generated for each CPU based on the apps the reader expects to use. The reader should also be allowed to change the CPU prices to create "what-if" scenarios to determine what the price/performance ratio is after the next price drop or what the effect might be of paying more to buy locally than getting the cheapest price online.