I've just read on X-Bits labsthat Intel is planning to use "Performance Ratings" for their processors :
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Snip from X-Bit Labs:-"Paul Otellini, the president of Intel Corporation, confirmed at IDF that the company will start using a kind of rating for their future processors. It is now officially stated that the biggest CPU-manufacturer in the world will introduce another metrics apart from the core-clock speed. Nowadays Intel with its flagman Pentium 4 processor is ?ahorse?. The working frequencies of the Pentium 4 processor with its long pipeline grow really fast, and this feature is an indisputable trump of Intel. However, in case of CPUs based on other architectures the company may find out that their working frequencies appear considerably lower than those of Pentium 4 CPUs even though their performance will be higher. "
For the complete story Warp2...Intel to Use Performance Ratings: the Latest Details from IDF .
Hit read more .
Snip from X-Bit Labs:-"Paul Otellini, the president of Intel Corporation, confirmed at IDF that the company will start using a kind of rating for their future processors. It is now officially stated that the biggest CPU-manufacturer in the world will introduce another metrics apart from the core-clock speed. Nowadays Intel with its flagman Pentium 4 processor is ?ahorse?. The working frequencies of the Pentium 4 processor with its long pipeline grow really fast, and this feature is an indisputable trump of Intel. However, in case of CPUs based on other architectures the company may find out that their working frequencies appear considerably lower than those of Pentium 4 CPUs even though their performance will be higher. "
For the complete story Warp2...Intel to Use Performance Ratings: the Latest Details from IDF .
