As previously touched on in a news item I posted yesterday. AMD has highlighted the fact that it will use a “performance-power rating” to name its embedded Geode line of processors, resulting in names that have higher numbers than the clock rating expressed in megahertz.
The chipmaker said Monday that it has it contracted with an Austin, Texas, benchmarking services company to deliver a broader range of performance metrics than pure megahertz. The benchmarks were developed by Synchromesh Computing Inc. to measure the arithmetic, floating point, and graphics processors, as well performance contributions from instructions dedicated to media processing, cache size, the internal bus, and other elements that affect overall performance.
Source: InformationWeek
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