Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD)

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Joe, Intel does not equate megahertz with pure performance - only as an important component to performance. Listing the megahertz with a processor gives a valuable insight into the performance of the system, though Intel could do more in educating about the micro-architecture. It's too bad that there isn't an easy number to assign for micro-architectural efficiency. It mostly depends on the type of application, as well as hundreds of other external factors - bus bandwidth, memory latency, in some cases disk performance, etc. It's far too complex to define the performance of everything, but one thing that should not be done is to try to confuse matters by reducing it all into a single number, which is what QuantiSpeed attempts to do. Megahertz is a valuable performance metric, but not by itself. QuantiSpeed is not valuable in any case, except if you are well informed about the configuration that AMD uses to gauge their performance rating, and that of course defeats the purpose of a simple model rating.