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Their scheme may be somewhat internally consistent (until they change it again next year). The information it conveys remains completely useless.
Nobody cares about the number of pins on a socket or which "generation" a CPU belongs to.
We want to know which CPU is compatible to which socket, and how CPUs compare on their key metrics.
So here's a useful naming scheme: Sockets should be called S1, S2, S3 [...]
CPUs should be called: S1-8-40W-PM15000
That would be an 8 core CPU for Socket S1 that draws 40W and scores PassMark 15000.
If Intel & co insist on making us sift through hostile numeric identifiers then they should at least make them useful.
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Their scheme may be somewhat internally consistent (until they change it again next year). The information it conveys remains completely useless.
Nobody cares about the number of pins on a socket or which "generation" a CPU belongs to.
We want to know which CPU is compatible to which socket, and how CPUs compare on their key metrics.
So here's a useful naming scheme: Sockets should be called S1, S2, S3 [...]
CPUs should be called: S1-8-40W-PM15000
That would be an 8 core CPU for Socket S1 that draws 40W and scores PassMark 15000.
If Intel & co insist on making us sift through hostile numeric identifiers then they should at least make them useful.