Author: Sune Fischer
Date: 07:45:25 06/29/03
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On June 29, 2003 at 08:59:15, Jeremiah Penery wrote: >On June 29, 2003 at 02:14:10, Sune Fischer wrote: > >>On June 28, 2003 at 21:35:42, Jeremiah Penery wrote: >> >>>On June 28, 2003 at 19:12:16, Ricardo Gibert wrote: >>> >>>>Elsewhere in this thread, someone asserted that for chess, the Opteron "not much >>>>faster" Mhz per Mhz as an Athlon XP. I thought this didn't seem right, but >>>>looking at the crafty sections of SPECint2000 at >>>>http://www.aceshardware.com/SPECmine/ makes it look like a fair (?) assessment. >>> >>>Did you look at the same numbers as I did? 1800MHz Opteron performs about where >>>you'd expect to see a 2100MHz Athlon for Crafty, according to SPEC numbers. So, >>>Opteron is performing some 16% better per MHz than the Athlon here. >> >>This is not another one of those "gee let's test the performance of the bran new >>64 bit chip using old non-optimized 32 bit applications" tests, is it? > >The SPEC results for the Opteron were compiled with ICC 7.0 and MSVC .NET - both >32-bit compilers. What's wrong with that kind of test? It shows that Opteron >performs better than Athlon on the same 'old non-optimized 32 bit applications'. > So we can expect even better when we have 'new optimized 64 bit applications'. Right, but why is this interesting? Honestly, to compile Crafty with a 32-bit compiler for a 64 bit chip smells like incompetence to me. Finally the 32-bit hell is over, for good!! :) -S.
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