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Subject: Re: centrino performance?

Author: martin fierz

Date: 06:17:33 06/19/03

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On June 19, 2003 at 09:05:09, Günther Simon wrote:

>On June 19, 2003 at 08:46:45, martin fierz wrote:
>
>>On June 19, 2003 at 05:10:25, Aaron Gordon wrote:
>>
>>>On June 19, 2003 at 03:55:49, martin fierz wrote:
>>>
>>>>i was just reading this computer magazine which says that the new pentium M
>>>>(also sold as "centrino" together with other components) is very fast compared
>>>>to older notebooks. does anybody have data on this (e.g. crafty benchmarks)?
>>>>
>>>>cheers
>>>>  martin
>>>
>>>From what I've seen so far a Centrino cpu is a Pentium 3 with 1mb of L2 cache.
>>>The extra L2 makes no difference for chess, though.
>>
>>if this is true, how come pichard's 1.3GHz centrino runs ruffian faster than my
>>2.4GHz P4?
>>
>>cheers
>>  martin
>
>I think you should do a more comparable benchmark, as far I can see
>you both hadnt specified a position nor hash for kn/s in Ruffian :)
>What about a Crafty or TSCP bench?
>
>Cheers,
>Günther

sure, you are right - it's not serious. i took ruffian.exe version 1.01, and
played e2-e4 c7-c6 Nb1-c3 d7-d5 e4xd5 and here ruffian started thinking, and got
about 900kN/s. i didnt touch any settings, so whatever the default hashsize was,
i was using that :-)

cheers
  martin



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