OE
March 21, 2004, 09:44 AM
Intel finally realized the necessity to offer a new rating system for its CPUs, because the core clock frequency doesn’t give a clear idea of the processor performance any more. Intel now offers a few different desktop and notebook processor families: Pentium 4 Extreme Edition, Pentium 4, Pentium M and Celeron. And if you can tell the CPU performance from its working core frequency within a single family, then comparing processors from different families makes absolutely no sense. It is really hard to explain to the average user why a notebook based on Pentium M 1.6GHz is more preferable than a notebook based on Mobile Pentium 4 2.4GHz. Then there is the "Big Mixup" in the same family at times. For example, there are a few Pentium 4 2.4GHz in the market which differ from one another by the bus frequency and L2 cache size, which surely affects their performance. So, introducing a unified rating is quite a logical move in this case.
Intel’s rating system is going to be very similar to BMW classification, because there will be three series:
High End - 7XX;
Middle End - 5XX;
Low End - 3XX.
http://home.cogeco.ca/~pcmc/4.jpg
Taken from a Japanese site
The rating system from Intel will be introduced in May, when Intel announced new mobile Dothan CPUs with 2MB L2 cache and 90nm manufacturing technology.
Regards,
OE
Intel’s rating system is going to be very similar to BMW classification, because there will be three series:
High End - 7XX;
Middle End - 5XX;
Low End - 3XX.
http://home.cogeco.ca/~pcmc/4.jpg
Taken from a Japanese site
The rating system from Intel will be introduced in May, when Intel announced new mobile Dothan CPUs with 2MB L2 cache and 90nm manufacturing technology.
Regards,
OE