Now AMD follows Intel's lead

[Nate Edel]

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.

There is one, for what little it's worth. It's called SPEC.

 

[Black Jack]

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

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

 

[Tony Hill]

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

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.

 

[The little lost angel]

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.

I think it was the TPI: True Performance Initiative or something like
that.

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[Nate Edel]

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.

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.