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Subject: Re: centrino performance?

Author: Aaron Gordon

Date: 11:20:14 06/20/03

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On June 20, 2003 at 12:48:21, Tom Kerrigan wrote:

>On June 19, 2003 at 17:32:00, Aaron Gordon 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
>>
>>Pentium 4's are much slower MHz for MHz than an Athlon or Pentium 3. This is why
>>an old Celeron 1GHz (with a P3 style core) is the same speed as a Pentium 4
>>1.5GHz. An old Athlon XP 1900+ 1.6GHz is about as fast as a Pentium 4 2.8GHz in
>>Crafty... and my Athlon XP overclocked to 2507MHz is about the speed of a
>>Pentium 4 @ 4GHz in Crafty if a P4 such as that existed.
>
>No, 1.5ghz vs. 1ghz is significantly different from 2.4ghz vs. 1.3ghz. The
>answer to Martin's question is that the Pentium M is quite different from the
>Pentium 3.
>
>I don't know about Crafty, but I don't think the performance difference between
>the AXP and P4 is that big on average. I know that for my program, my AXP 2000+
>runs slightly slower than the 2.2GHz Northwood I have at work.
>
>-Tom

The Crafty & P4 speeds hold true with every other chess program I've seen, but
yours. Not sure what you're doing.. perhaps it's the simplicity of your program
that helps.

In the tests that I've done for chess, I see...

Athlon 2.5Ghz == P4-4.0GHz (w/o HT)
Athlon 2.2GHz > P4-3.25ghz
Athlon XP 1.86GHz == P4-3GHz
Tbird 1.68GHz > P4-2.53GHz
Pentium 3 1.12GHz > P4-1.6GHz
Celeron 1.0GHz > P4-1.5GHz.



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