Now AMD follows Intel's lead

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In comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips Carlo Razzeto said:
Actually, if you remember back to when AMD was first coming out with model
numbers for the AXP line they did bring up that they really wanted universal
performance ratings. I believe they even talked about setting up an industry
wide consortium for this purpose. I'd look up links but I'm too tried/lazy
to do that right now.
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There is one, for what little it's worth. It's called SPEC.
 
Carlo Razzeto said:
Actually, if you remember back to when AMD was first coming out with model
numbers for the AXP line they did bring up that they really wanted universal
performance ratings. I believe they even talked about setting up an industry
wide consortium for this purpose. I'd look up links but I'm too tried/lazy
to do that right now.

Carlo
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No, I know they did, I wasn't disputing that. What I was disputing was
what the necessity of such a system is in the first place? Carmakers
don't really try to name their cars after their performance numbers.

Yousuf Khan
 
Actually, they're pretty close in several major classes:
Compact/low-end luxury: C-class to 3-series 4 door
Roadster: SLK to Z3
Mid-size luxury: E-class to 5-series
Full-size luxury: S-class to 7-series
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They do offer comparable models, but that's not the same as lining up
model numbers between the two.

For example, no one would expect a Mercedes S320 to be roughly the
same as a BMW 320i. These are quite different cars sold at very
different price-points, but their model numbers are almost the same.
 
Actually, if you remember back to when AMD was first coming out with model
numbers for the AXP line they did bring up that they really wanted universal
performance ratings. I believe they even talked about setting up an industry
wide consortium for this purpose. I'd look up links but I'm too tried/lazy
to do that right now.
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I think it was the TPI: True Performance Initiative or something like
that.

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In comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips Tony Hill said:
They do offer comparable models, but that's not the same as lining up
model numbers between the two.

For example, no one would expect a Mercedes S320 to be roughly the
same as a BMW 320i. These are quite different cars sold at very
different price-points, but their model numbers are almost the same.
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True, although once you know how to read the model numbers from either,
they're encoding roughly the same information: ie, I _would_ expect a
Mercedes C240 (C-class, 2.4 liter engine) to be roughly comparable to a BMW
325i (3-series, 2.5 liter engine, i for fuel injected, although it's been
ages since that 'i' wasn't on every 3-series ;) )

Then again, comparing displacement is like comparing megahertz; it's not the
whole story, of course.
 
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