Intel "New PR Ratings"

[clarkey01]

new Intel chip labels

It just occurred to me reading the article about Intel adopting Pr ratings/Labels for future chips, what?s to stop them labelling a 3.8Ghz chip a 4200 ? What would this do to AMD ? we all know the hammer at current 0.13nm cant scale much more then 2.5ghz and I don?t know how far the on 0.9 nmwill take frequency. Point is a AMD 4200+ is likely to be 2.8ghz, what?s to stop Intel naming a 3.8ghz chip a 4400 ?. We all know the hammer does more instructions per clock then a Prescott /Tejas and probably Nehalem ( Nehalem is suppose to reach 10ghz, god knows how many pipelines its goona take) .If a customer looks at a cpu at 2.8ghz with a 4000 rating, and a chip at 3.8ghz with a 4000 rating, which do think he?ll go for ?

 

[Hyperfocal]

Intel's problem with the Pentium-M is the same problem AMD has with the A64 and XP. The chips are faster than their actual clock speed indicates when compared to the P4. It seems to be hurting sales of the Pentium-Ms which are great chips, but suffer from low Ghz ratings.

However, I had to laugh at this paragraph in the article.

At this point, the Intel chip line contains a bedazzling set of options. The newer 2.8 GHz Prescott, for example, clocks in just a tad faster than the 2.6 GHz Northwood. But the Prescott boasts a 1-MB cache and an 800-MHz bus, compared with Northwood's 512-KB cache and 533-MHz bus. So, how much performance does the Prescott offer over the Northwood?

 

[vansouza]

OK it is official, Intel has made me dizzy...

 

[FrustratedUser]

They should start labeling them after a benchmark or something, LOL.
Poor customers.

 

[Duvie]

IMO...Intel should not adopt PR ratings in te desktop cpus.....Right now I see no benefit as the prescott with its longer pipeline likely wont start eclipsing northwoods until 3.6ghz plus so it will be an inaccurate as AMD and their pr ratings with their barton line...What a laugher!!!

However in the laptop arena it may be warranted, but let see if they figure in all the factors like the non dual channel ddr chipsets, the slower HDD's on average etc.....Laptops in general are a laugher as well because a desktop will smoke a laptop with the same chip on average due to the other limiting factors of the laptop world....

 

[Elcs]

I think AMD had guts to do the PR thing. They launched a real mass-market attack on Intel.... granted it didnt do enough.

Intel now have the same kind of problem. If they try to work out a PR system, it could go belly up like the AMD line of ratings did or it could actually make AMD look better or more competitive to a person with "normal knowledge of pc's".

Intel have a large problem to overcome here I think.... Intel's marketing team seem better than AMD's at reaching the mass-market.. so perhaps they can set a workable PR standard.

 

[alexruiz]

Are they going to label the celeron 2.6 Ghz a "celeron 1200"?

 

[Flyermax2k3]

Originally posted by: alexruiz
Are they going to label the celeron 2.6 Ghz a "celeron 1200"?

ROFLMAO! :beer: nice