Posted by : bpburnwal on Sep 25, 2003 - 03:45 PM Hardware

We may know Athlon which is famous through out the world. They really proceeding very fast and they may beat some other..Instead of being the 1.53GHz Athlon, today's top-of-the-line AMD desktop CPU is the Athlon XP 1800+ with QuantiSpeed Architecture.
Blaming consumer confusion caused by the high clock speeds versus merely medium-high performance of Intel's Pentium 4, AMD says it will identify its new processors using model numbers instead of actual speed in megahertz. AMD also claims its new chips' 1800+, 1700+, 1600+, and 1500+ ratings refer to their performance compared to earlier Athlons.

Some difference between Athlon and Pentium.

What I think is we should never give comments against these comp. But what I know is Athlon processing speed is more better than Pentium but the processor gets heat very fast . So for some places like India people prefers Intel Pentium more than Athlon and more over it is much costlier than Athlon.
The Athlon is a spectacularly good chip, and AMD is correct. CPU performance does not equal clock speed; it equals clock speed times instructions per clock cycle. The Pentium 4 processes about 20 percent fewer instructions per clock than the Pentium III.

All right, Intel indulged in smoke and mirrors with NetBurst; now AMD is referring to the new Athlon's hardware data prefetch, translation look-aside buffers, and other internal improvements as QuantiSpeed. Call it even; PR puffery score, 1-1.
But the Athlon XP tag, which stands for "Xtra Performance," honest, surely not a frantic attempt to grab Microsoft's coattails for the launch of Windows XP? Intel hasn't done that. (It occurs to me that many Linux fans, just the sort of independent-minded PC users who love to pick a superior price/performance solution over a bigger brand name, won't be caught dead buying computers with chips named XP.)
And trying to conceal a CPU's clock speed? Intel hasn't done that, although it's never felt obligated to point out that competitors' lower clock speeds deliver comparable performance. Apple never did it, even when massively advertising (relying somewhat dubiously on a single Byte integer benchmark, if I recall) that its PowerPC chips blew away Pentiums.
And in the last few days, The Inquirer and other tech sites have been buzzing about how online vendors were already listing and HwC's and other forum members were raving over an 1800MHz Athlon MP that proved, you guessed it, to be a "Model 1800" instead ... in short, even before the new chips were released, not mass-market consumers but expert techies were being fooled and befuddled by the PR-rating poison. It's going to be an absolute shambles out there.
"Poison" is a strong word, but I use it because strong conviction is what AMD is failing to show. Attack the Pentium 4's relative performance, launch ad campaigns, try to educate consumers that megahertz aren't important? Yes, absolutely, go for it -- put splashy stickers on PC boxes and signs in superstore aisles shouting, "Athlon 5 Beats Pentium 4!", bar charts showing AMD's 1.53GHz CPU whupping Intel's 1.8GHz or even 2.0GHz chip. Advertise the processor, downplay (note: "downplay" does not mean "hide") the clock speed, give folks a chance to love the scrappy underdog.
But this 1800+ stuff? AMD is proclaiming, "Megahertz are important, we're unable to keep up right now, and we're desperate enough to deliberately confuse consumers." It's wrong, it's inane, and it deserves to fail.

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