rik1471

Take the new AMD Athlon XP 2700+ why is it rated at 2.17 GHz, but labelled as a 2.7??

Is it a 2.7GHz or 2.1?

what would scooby do

it's a 2.1ghz that equates to Pentium 4 2.7ghz performance !!

DJ Dunk

iTrader: (5)

Not quite

Apparently its AMD's True Performance Initiative, or TPI, AMD and is setting out to assist customers in understanding the benefits of PC performance.

AMD Unveils New AMD Athlon™ XP Processor; Drives Initiative to Develop New Processor Performance Metric

Partners rally around world’s highest performance processor for desktop PCs

SAN FRANCISCO, CA -- October 9, 2001 --AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced the new AMD Athlon™ XP processor, the world’s highest-performance processor for desktop PCs. AMD also announced plans to drive an initiative to develop a reliable processor performance metric that PC users can trust. The True Performance Initiative reflects AMD’s continued commitment to business and home PC users.
“For most of the PC’s first 20 years, megahertz was a reliable indicator of PC processor performance because the major players used the same architecture for product design, and clock speed was a good proxy for performance. This is no longer true,” said W.J. Sanders III, AMD chairman and chief executive officer. “The award-winning performance of our seventh-generation AMD Athlon processor architecture demonstrates that clock speed is only half of the performance equation. With our new AMD Athlon XP processor, AMD again accelerates innovation, reduces system cost while delivering the fastest application performance, and places the consumer at the forefront of digital technology.”

True Performance Initiative
Through the True Performance Initiative, or TPI, AMD is setting out to assist customers in understanding the benefits of PC performance. TPI also will help define a new, more accurate measure of processor performance for standard applications. The initiative will be chaired by Patrick Moorhead, who has been appointed as AMD’s Vice President of Customer Advocacy, reporting to the Office of the CEO.

"Historically, x86 microprocessors have improved both instructions (work) per clock and frequency compared to older generations. However, this is not true with some processors today. Therefore, megahertz cannot be solely relied upon as a measure of system performance."

"Consumers are beginning to understand that the true indicator of performance is how fast their applications run, not the megahertz of their processor. Megahertz measures only how many cycles per second the engine spins, not how much torque it delivers,”

Uh, oh we're back to the old bhp vs torque argument

Basically, its a comparison to the old Athlons. So an AthlonXP 2000+ is the equivalent speed of an Athlon 2Ghz.

logiclee

I was in a Time computer store recently, they had a sign up saying their Athlon XP1800+ Laptops out performed their equivalent 2.4gig Pentium4 Laptops.

Lee

ChrisB

Benchmarks... smenchmarks.

You can prove either chip is faster depending on what tests you run.