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[FastGame]

**edit - oh. Why would your P have a P rating? It's for AMD to compare to P

Good question LK, your well on the way of being an AMD fanboy. Challenge the competition at every opportunity

Actually the "P" rating is for AMD not Intel

P-rating
A microprocessor naming convention used by AMD and other non-Intel chip manufacturers for a few years in the late 1990s. Chips used a Processor Performance Rating, or P-rating, to indicate the same overall performance level as an Intel Pentium regardless of clock speed or other variables. Version 1.0 of the P-rating specification advised using Winstone 96 benchmarks to ascertain a chip’s P-rating versus a similar system with a Pentium. An example is P100, which indicates the equivalent of a 100MHz Pentium. AMD later revived the P-rating concept in 2001 with its XP naming convention.

XP chip rating
AMD’s naming convention debuting with the Athlon XP in 2001. At the time, AMD’s microprocessors had fallen behind Intel’s in clock speed (measured in MHz and GHz) yet generally did more work per clock cycle (instructions per clock or IPC). AMD branded its chips to reflect performance correlations to Intel’s Pentium 4s. As an example, the 1.53GHz Athlon XP 1800+ was marketed as roughly as fast as a 1.8GHz P4.

[egghead]

sisoft sandra displays the mhz plus a pr rating so it actually disaplays it for the p4

[lynchknot]

sisoft sandra displays the mhz plus a pr rating so it actually disaplays it for the p4

so it gives a pentium equivalency rating for a pentium?

[egghead]

so it gives a pentium equivalency rating for a pentium?

Here is a screen capture from my friends computer which was my old computer.