Amd to use PR-ratings?

[Bsdboy]

It looks like AMD might start identifying their chips by a PR-rating system: http://www.tomshardware.com/cpu/01q3/010829/news-02.html
Sounds like a pretty bogus thing to do http://www.sysopt.com/forum/frown.gif

Bsdboy

[MrFreeze]

yeah, hate the new marketing systems from AMD: Athlon 4 and the PR-system...

but AMD still rulez... IMHO

MrFreeze

[NDD]

PR-ratings ? Again ?! http://www.sysopt.com/forum/frown.gif

I didn't like that idea on Cyrix/IBM 5/6x86 processors, the whole idea was to show it's power against Intel processor. But then comparing something to the newly introduced Pentium was a good marketing step.
But now AMD wants to implement PR-rating comparing to Intel processor. It means that AMD gives all the credicts to Intel, acknowledges Intel's ruling position and will compare future Athlons with Intel's P4 or whatever.
It seems to be the strategy only a bunch of loosers could think of (no offence, AMD) http://www.sysopt.com/forum/frown.gif

I really hope AMD will abandon that idea ASAP ...

Best Regards ...

[Machupo]

i think that whole PR junk is a load...

Mhz*IPC seems a *bit* more intelligent... of course, semiconductor companies have been known to do stupider things (cough*crambus*ahem)

[Ruahrc]

I can understand where they are coming from and why, but I too don't like this PR ****. Just say it like it is, AMD.

Perhaps instead of using PR's again, try to inform the general public that Tbird 1.3's and 1.4's are direct competitors to P4 1.7GHz'ers. I was glad they went away from PR-ratings and hope they never come back. They are too confusing and also can be misleading.

Ruahrc

[Hellmund]

Yeah it is unfortunate, we still get people who occasionaly say "my cyrix PR200 won't run at 200mhz", it's quite confusing but frankly AMD dosn't seem to have a choice. P4 is already scaling really high and leaving the Athlon for dead, intel already demonstrated a full-functional 3.5ghz Northwood core PIV with 0.13um. Albeit supercooled but an athlon could never do that. The sad fact is clock-speed sells in the un-informed market, there a lot of people who realise how a 1.4ghz T-bird can out-perform a P4-1.7ghz in practically everything but as a percentage of the whole computer purchasing population we're a really small minority. It probaly will do them well and is quite likely to become reality. Just wish it only reported PR on the BIOS screen and still said the processor speed on the cpu...