hmm

Hehe wouldn't it be nice to know what CPU he's refering to before making such a vague statement?
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That would be a certain luxury we dont have, 3800+ could be anything, theres quite a few 3800+'s
 
Well....

It's not that hard to figure out actually. You only have the Athlon 64 3800+ and now the Athlon X2 3800+. So it's one of those... which means a lot actually :)

JAN :D
 
There should be some kind of message box for any user under say 50 posts that says "Did you read Questions 101 before this post?" after they hit submit post. This would come in handy.

Anyways, the rating system of AMD is supposed to resmble a vague performace comparison between it and the Intel counterpart. This system isn't all that good since 3800 is supposed to mean a P4 at 3.8Ghz but there are multiple P4s with the same clock rate but some faster than others. Don't trust the rating system, just go to a review site and look at benchmarks between the two CPUs you want to compare.
THG (http://www.tomshardware.com/index.html) has a nice interactive CPU chart that lists almost all CPUs you could want and has benchmarks for them in various software areas like DivX encoding, 3dMark, Pcmark, etc...
 
Anyways, the rating system of AMD is supposed to resmble a vague performace comparison between it and the Intel counterpart.
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everyday we move further and further away from a time when that was true. Even intel dont use clock speed to brand there cpus now
 
so then whats the Intel equal to a ...3800+ for example
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There isnt. Apples and oranges.

That would be a certain luxury we dont have, 3800+ could be anything, theres quite a few 3800+'s
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And hence we shouldnt answer when we dont know.....

It's not that hard to figure out actually. You only have the Athlon 64 3800+ and now the Athlon X2 3800+. So it's one of those... which means a lot actually
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AMD Athlon64 3800 [S939, Venice, ADA3800DAA4BP]
AMD Athlon64 3800 [S939, Newcastle, ADA3800DEP4AW]
AMD Athlon64 X2 3800 [S939, Manchester, ADA3800DAA5BV]

There should be some kind of message box for any user under say 50 posts that says "Did you read Questions 101 before this post?" after they hit submit post. This would come in handy.
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I would be more in favor ot piping a smack via TCPIP

everyday we move further and further away from a time when that was true. Even intel dont use clock speed to brand there cpus now
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So which Opteron matches the Xeon 5050? :P
 
gamerman4 said:
Anyways, the rating system of AMD is supposed to resmble a vague performace comparison between it and the Intel counterpart.
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Actually ocording to www.amd.com, its just the model number that they use for that series of chip, and its not intended to determine how fast it is compared to an intel.
 
Post#7 is time-context sensitive, because, according to AMD.com

Q: What is this new P-rating ?

A: The P-rating is a new performance measurement, it is an apples to apples performance rating for the processor using the industry standard Winstone 96 benchmark. If an AMD-K5 processor has a rating of "PR100" that means that the processor would offer you performance equal to or greater than a Pentium at that P-rating. For Example, if you have a AMD-K5-PR133, it would give you the performance level of a Pentium 133MHz processor. However, the "PR" rating is not an indication of clock frequency.
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So in fact, it was intended to match the clockspeed -- but not anymore, now it's just "coincicdent"
 
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