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Subject: Re: centrino performance?

Author: Tom Kerrigan

Date: 12:53:13 06/20/03

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On June 20, 2003 at 14:20:14, Aaron Gordon wrote:

>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.

What other programs have you tested? Do you keep track of benchmark scores? It'd
be interesting to see all of your data in, e.g., an Excel spreadsheet or
something.

-Tom



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