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I really wish CPU vendors would simply name their products after relevant benchmarks. E.g. 'Intel PassMark 14490/135W'. Or 'AMD PassMark 9140/125W'. Sounds nea
by moe 13y ago
I really wish CPU vendors would simply name their products after relevant benchmarks. E.g. 'Intel PassMark 14490/135W'. Or 'AMD PassMark 9140/125W'.
Sounds nearly as fancy, makes the same amount of sense to the layman, and saves the rest of us a bit of time.
- pavlov 13y agoAMD used to do something like this back in the K5 era. Instead of advertising megahertz, the processors were sold based on a "performance rating" which attempted to match them up to equivalent Pentium chips based on a set of benchmarks. So a K5 PR-200 was actually a 133MHz chip, but it could match or exceed a Pentium 200MHz in some well-selected benchmarks.
- iso8859-1 13y agoThere is no such thing as a _universally_ "relevant benchmark". They will never agree on a testing suite since performance varies too much. They have no reason to believe the test manufacturer is impartial.
- vacri 13y agoWhen you're done convincing them, can you convince the GPU makers as well? It's crazytown over there. At least the network switch makers have a sort of internal consistency, though you still have to learn individual vendors' styles.