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I wonder how they came up with 19%. Surely they could nudge it up to 20% and no one would notice. These are synthetic tests after all right?
by shusson 6y ago
I wonder how they came up with 19%. Surely they could nudge it up to 20% and no one would notice. These are synthetic tests after all right?
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- vikramkr 6y ago19 sounds more "real" since it isn't a round number
- OkGoDoIt 6y agoAt first impression, a claimed 19% improvement feels more trustworthy, more data-driven, rather than a 20% which might be written off as marketing fluff.
- neogodless 6y ago> The +19% value that AMD is using is taken from internal testing, using the geometric mean of 25 benchmarks involving a mixture of real-world and synthetic. This is from the article. So yes, some synthetic tests, and some "real-world" benchmarks.
- anonymfus 6y agoSurely they can also bump the price from $299, $449, $549 and $799 to $300, $450, $550 and $800 respectively, and nobody will notice either.
- xondono 6y ago1st rule of negotiation, avoid round numbers. There’s a big psychological difference between asking for 50.000$ and 52.178$ and 23cts. The second looks more believable because it looks like something you got from “running the numbers”, even if you just made that up.