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Subject: Re: Crafty smoking everything at opteron 64 bits

Author: Jeremiah Penery

Date: 21:27:38 06/29/03

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On June 29, 2003 at 17:47:29, Vincent Diepeveen 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.
>
>Then you're taking a very bad look at specint.
>
>Crafty 64 bits using the GCC compiler (which for sure ain't fastest possible
>code yet) :
>
>1.8Ghz opteron 64 bits : 1562 score (more is better)
>2.2Ghz K7      32 bits : 1324 score
>3.06Ghz Xeon   32 bits : 1192 score

Sorry, those numbers were not in Ace's SPECMine, so I didn't see them.



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