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They are right .... MHz does mean MHz .... like i said before this is the greatest thing to happen to Intel ... a core that can clock to 10Ghz and stays at 6 IPC .... I want to see amd do that! >>
You've just hit on exactly why AMD needed the PR numbers in the first place. Everyone looks at P4s (even techies apparently) and drools over the high clock speeds. What many people don't seem to understand is that clock speed is a stupid way of measuring performance of a CPU. Faster does not always mean better, anyone who's ever worked with Sun or SGI boxes knows this. Unfortunitly, this is the real world and marketing plays a big roll, and most consumers look at one thing, how fast does the CPU run. Intel figured this out and made a CPU that plays to consumers. AMD was left with (at the time the P4 came out) far superior chips that no one would by because they were "slower". So they needed a bigger number to attach to their CPUs. >>
Hmm .... lets look at spec testing:
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MISSION: To establish, maintain, and endorse a standardized set of relevant benchmarks and metrics for performance evaluation of modern computer systems. >>
SPEC CPU2000 Results:
CPU / Base / Peak
CINT2000
-P3 1.26Ghz_133Mhz i815 / 611 / 623
-P3 1.4AGhz_133Mhz i815 / 648 / 664
-P4 2.0AGhz_400Mhz i850 / 738 / 739
-P4 2.2AGhz_400Mhz i850 / 786 / 806
-P4 2.4AGHz_400Mhz i850 / 819 / 833
-XP 1.47Ghz_266MHz Epox 8KHA+ / 633 / 656
-XP 1.53GHz_266Mhz Epox 8KHA+ / 648 / 671
-XP 1.60GHz_266Mhz Epox 8KHA+ / 677 / 701
-XP 1.67Ghz_266Mhz Epox 8KHA+ / 697 / 724
CFP2000
-P3 1.26Ghz_133Mhz i815 / 422 / 440
-P3 1.4AGhz_133Mhz i815 / 437 / 456
-P4 2.0AGhz_400Mhz i850 / 744 / 764
-P4 2.2AGhz_400Mhz i850 / 779 / 801
-P4 2.4AGHz_400Mhz i850 / 806 / 812
-XP 1.47Ghz_266MHz Epox 8KHA+ / 561 / 604
-XP 1.53GHz_266Mhz Epox 8KHA+ / 572 / 615
-XP 1.60GHz_266Mhz Epox 8KHA+ / 588 / 634
-XP 1.67Ghz_266Mhz Epox 8KHA+ / 596 / 642
Look how well the P4 does ..... the athlon needs to get around 2.0GHz to match a 2.4A in CPU2000. And the XP needs to hit around 2.66GHz to match the 2.4A in CFP2000. Now for only 6 IPC the pentium 4 does amazing ...... In a few look for the 2.53GHz B's in there And look at the 1.4GHz Tualatin in CPU2000 it does better then the 1700+ (1.47GHz) and its lower clocked and half fsb. Thats interesting
SSXeon