It's actually smart on AMD's part.  It is true that an AMD running at 1.3
Ghz will run as fast as, or even outperform, an Intel chip running at 1.5
Ghz.  This is because clock speed should not be confused with processing
power.  AMD's chips have a much higher IPC (instructions per cycle) count.
Simply put, AMD does more with less.  It can do more instructions for each
cycle than can an Intel chip.  There for instead of trying to convince the
consumer that an Athlon 1.3 Ghz is faster than an Intel 1.5 Ghz, they just
started called them Athlon 1300, 1500, etc...

-----Original Message-----
From: Joe Lore [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 5:01 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] AMD 1200


Hi,

AMD CPU's no longer are numbered by the actual speed the chip runs at, but
rather at what equivalent INTEL cpus speed is most favorably compares to.
This is because AMD says there ore other factors than speed that determine
how fast a CPU really is.

Confused yet?  Should be, it's kind of like a shell game because they can't
win on the raw cpu speed issue, so they changed the way the game is played
to favor themselves.

example:

the amd xp1500+  really runs at 1.33ghz.  (266 hhz bus)

sorry that is the only one I have handy to compare with




At 09:39 AM 12/19/2002 +0200, you wrote:
>Hello;
>Iwant to ask about the AMD duron 1200+ Pro if it is an 1200Mhz cpu or not
and if any body can help me finding the specifications of Elite motherboard
k7sem with AMD Duron 1200+ cpu onboard
>thanks
>
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