posted 02-21-2002 09:04 PM
The new naming convention from AMD is only a marketing hype. Their speed are lower than the actual number of the CPU model that you have. This was to make competition harder with Intel because they've got "higher" speed but since the CPUs of AMD are more powerfull they thought that by making the consumer believe the name was the actual speed. Here's the real speed if you're talking about the real MHz:
Athlon XP cpu model Speed in MHz 1500 1.33ghz 1600 1.4ghz 1700 1.47ghz 1800 1.53ghz 1900 1.6ghz 2000 1.67ghz
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posted 02-21-2002 09:54 PM
There are ALWAYS some differences in the cores...
However, they don't really change a thing for the user. It's like a P1-66 is totally different from a P1-133... but the internal structure is roughly the same and the instruction paths and optimizations are the same.
Don't worry, if there's a major difference between two components, the company will always try to put up a marketing stunt on that difference. (Twice as fast... with 256-bits pathways... MMX... SSE-2... IA-64... Xeon... With more than 15 (read 16) loop unfolding optimizations...)
It's the same as I used to say to my mom about power bars. If you want to protect your investment, simply look for power bars with insurance money on it. 2500$ will be a good bar. 5000$ a great one. 10000$ will never break 25000$ the small light will never flicker -- They will do marketing on everything that they can.
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posted 02-22-2002 02:56 AM
Hehe, I remeber back when the big AMD vs. Intel competition was just starting. Intel had just launched the "Pentium" processors... "Pentium" became a kinda hypeword instantly. I remeber stores selling machines with AMD processors, but called them "Pentiums" because it was such a cool word.
posted 02-27-2002 02:03 AM
AMD was not a true player until the Athlon first came out to combat the higher end P2's and the up and coming P3's (seems wierd to say higher end P2 ) Before then with the Pentium the primary competition for Intel was Cyrix, who happened to be the first to introduce Performance ratings (anyone remember the Cyrix 166+ that was actually clocked at 150MHz...OOOOOHHH 16MHz difference hehe)
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posted 02-21-2002 07:09 PM
-- They will do marketing on everything that they can.
posted 02-21-2002 10:03 PM
