Replies to post #29404 on Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD)

[j3pflynn]

HailMary - re: "I wonder what AMD will do when Intel goes to model numbering. How are they going to show their parts are better than Intel's to the general consumer? The rating system was working in that area, even though most enthusiasts didn't like it."

The same way marketers now might compare a BMW Z4 to a Mercedes SLK320. Consumers will have to do homework. Like I've said before, hardware review sites will become a lot more important to cut through the marketing BS.
Paul

[Petz]

it will take a 4Ghz Prescott or better to clearly beat the FX-53 on 940

Depends what benchmarks you are using. If you follow tomshardware.com's selections, 3.4E looks better than 3400+ on 20 of 34 benchmarks, though it loses by the same margin to an FX-53.

Of course, over half the 34 (non synthetic) benchmarks are video/audio encoding/decoding.

This will backfire bigtime
1) When these apps start to get ported to 64-bits
2) On Dothan architecture
3) When Athlon 64 gets SSE3 (and Dothan doesn't, funny)

But then, Intel won't be talking about performance then.

Petz