Tsumi
[H]F Junkie
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The objective and tangible targets came about because of the lawsuits. It's very strange how you continue to post about a thing that exists as if it always existed without acknowledging how it came to be.
I don't know which country you are in, but in the United States every single car is sold with it's HP and Torque claims loudly and proudly marketed. In the past car companies used to claim ridiculous HP and Torque until they were sued and now have to publish *when* that power occurs (lb-ft@rpms).
The same way with response time. Companies used to shift all kinds of claims about what mattered when it came to response time in a monitor until they had to step into court and codify what they meant. That led to the now standard of reporting "Grey to Grey." Industry didn't just decide to be less vague and more accurate with their marketing claims because people wanted them to, they did it because people made them through the court system.
Whether this particular case prevails isn't particularly relevant to the process I'm describing to you. The conversations that occur in the court will become part of the body of our law that will direct future court proceedings. Eventually that body of law will build up into a formal understanding of the thing ("core" in this case). That's different from informal understandings of a thing, which is where were are now.
/facepalm
Yes, they publish peak HP and torque numbers, but they do not publish HP and torque curves.
What you're saying is akin to consumers assuming performance based on number of cylinders and displacement, and then wondering why a DOHC direct inject engine performs better than a pushrod carburetor engine of the same cylinder count and displacement. Number of cores is the number of cylinders. Clock speed is the displacement. Architecture is your intake, exhaust, cam, fuel delivery, etc. Car companies publish peak HP and torque numbers. They don't publish HP and torque curves, which determines how the engine performs throughout the RPM range, and they don't publish numbers on how the transmission performs. Similarly, AMD publishes and advertises performance in certain benchmarks, but they do not publish numbers on a wide range of software.
In case you still don't get it, the technical existence of 8 cores is in no way similar to MPG, HP, torque, or any other specification. The closest match will be number of cylinders. Claiming a Bulldozer core can't be considered as a full core is most similar to saying that a pushrod cylinder cannot be considered a full cylinder because it doesn't perform as well as a DOHC cylinder.