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C, <I think AMD's rating holds no matter what apps they use to determine it.>

You almost got it right. AMD's rating holds no matter what, period.

Contrary to Droidian belief, it is NOT determined by benchmarks or application performance. Instead, it is arbitrarily determined by market positioning. For example, if AMD thinks an Opteron should be positioned against a Xeon 3.4 GHz, they'll just name it a 3400. Simple as that, and they'll leave the validation of that rating to the reviewers (and their rubber-stamp auditing system).

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