Intel funny comparisons and calculations
Thursday Mar 22, 2007
Intel is really playing with information, ZDNet writes:
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"...instead of comparing Intel's latest greatest chips to AMD's latest greatest chips (as Intel should be doing to legimately convince Wall St., the press, and customers of leadership and/or breakaway performance), more than half of the data points that show Intel leading or breaking away show it doing so against older AMD chips (in some cases, single-core chips or chips from an older generation of Opterons) and in some cases, with retired benchmarks"
David missed something we've blogged about here, some Intel systems with normal-size memory use more watts when compared to some systems. Watt & configuration data really needs to be shown somewhere in the Intel presentation mentioned above if a chart is to have validity. http://blogs.sun.com/bmseer/entry/woodcrest_memory_lacks_some_important
and one other thing, in this presentation Intel used perf/$ and perf/watt. As blogged yesterday, everyone needs to use $/perf and watt/perf to really help customers.
