[hippo8]

AMD has to stop naming their products like this.

I mean look at Intel, i3,i5,i7. I can at-least guess which one's better.

Yes I do understand that Intel too has many different names that caters to different markets, yet somehow Intel’s names are far more easier for me to understand, they are far more shorter, and if I want more details about the processor I can read what’s after the "Intel-i7-xxxx" and figure what it is.

I really want to see AMD succeed, I want to have more options when I want to buy a processor.

[ploxiln]

Oh come on, intel's naming is terrible. "better" isn't clear cut, but even if it is, i3/i5/i7 still wouldn't be consistent. Features like hyperthreading, vt-d, v-pro, more cores, better graphics, are sort of stochastically more likely to be in the i7 than the i5 than the i3, but it's never consistent.

See for example the bottom table on this page title "More Differentiation" http://www.anandtech.com/show/4083/the-sandy-bridge-review-i...

i3-2100 does have aes-ni, i3-2120 does not. i5-2300 does not have vt-d. i5-2400 does. i5-2500K does not.

In that generation, i3 have hyperthreading, i5 do not, i7 do. That's for desktop chips though, for laptops its different.

The latest generation, broadwell, was slightly more consistent. But you can never be sure, I have to look up these suckers every single time. At least Intel Ark is nice.

[_pmf_]

> I mean look at Intel, i3,i5,i7. I can at-least guess which one's better.

If you're assuming i7 to be better than i5, you're wrong. Single core clock matters. Some games are barely playable with a low clock i7, but work perfectly on a high clocked i5.

[kayoone]

yeah, because games are all that matters to people on HN. Besides, a i7 4790K runs at 4Ghz and up to 4.4Ghz (Single Core Turbo) natively while having 4 full cores, show me a i5 that can beat it in games (non overclocked of course). Sure some lower clocked i7 might be slower than some i5s in certain tasks, but those are obviously still better at multi threaded tasks than an i5.