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Subject: Re: I knew it!

Author: Slater Wold

Date: 09:57:54 07/04/03

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On July 04, 2003 at 12:52:31, Brian Richardson wrote:

>>>Opterons are *much* faster than Athlons.
>>>
>>>My 2x1.73s got about 1.7M nps.
>>
>>
>>Opps!
>>
>>From the exe offered on Hyatt's website.
>>
>>
>>EPD Kit revision date: 1996.04.21
>>found computer opening book file [./bookc.bin].
>>
>>Crafty v18.15 (1 cpus)
>>
>>White(1): mt 2
>>max threads set to 2
>>White(1): bench
>>Running benchmark. . .
>>......
>>Total nodes: 106580575
>>Raw nodes per second: 1440278
>>Total elapsed time: 74
>>SMP time-to-ply measurement: 8.648649
>>White(1): end
>>execution complete.
>>
>>
>>1.73M with a profiled exe using Intel's compiler.
>>
>>I'd be interested to see what he gets with the FTP exe of 18.15.
>
>FTP binary, no profile optimization, I think:
>
>hash table memory = 384M bytes.
>pawn hash table memory = 24M bytes.
>5 piece tablebase files found
>20370kb of RAM used for TB indices and decompression tables
>max threads set to 2
>
>Crafty v18.15 (2 cpus)
>
>White(1): bench
>Running benchmark. . .
>......
>Total nodes: 86094416
>Raw nodes per second: 1721888
>Total elapsed time: 50
>SMP time-to-ply measurement: 12.800000
>White(1): mt=1
>max threads set to 1
>White(1): thread 1 exiting
>bench
>Running benchmark. . .
>......
>Total nodes: 84497760
>Raw nodes per second: 1069591
>Total elapsed time: 79
>SMP time-to-ply measurement: 8.101266
>White(1):


So here we see that an Opteron @ 1.7Ghz is a *lot* faster than an Athlon 1.7Ghz
using the same code.  Looks like the Opteron excels at 32-bit code, Bob.  ;)

To the tune of about 20%.



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