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Subject: Re: centrino performance?

Author: Ricardo Gibert

Date: 08:41:17 06/19/03

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On June 19, 2003 at 09:17:33, martin fierz wrote:

>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 :-)

I set up this position, cleared the hash and let it run for 2 minutes. It ended
with 943kN/s with 935kN/s being a typical figure for this position.

>
>cheers
>  martin



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