[ale] cpuinfo data

Jeff Hubbs hbbs at comcast.net
Wed Aug 2 21:46:09 EDT 2006


I think you're thinking of the AMD consumer-line CPUs (e.g., 3200+,
4200+).  In this case (I was there), /proc/cpuinfo is IDing the chip on
one line and clearly showing "1800 MHz" on another.

- Jeff

JK wrote:
> You've probably already checked this, but doesn't
> AMD "scale" the speeds of their chips to be
> comparable to Intel chips in performance? So
> an AMD "2600" might actually be running at
> 1800Mhz, but perform equivalently to a 2600Mhz
> Intel chip (or so they'd like us to believe).
>
> -- JK
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