Author: James T. Walker
Date: 09:01:16 12/09/99
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On December 08, 1999 at 23:33:55, Will Singleton wrote:
>On December 08, 1999 at 22:24:36, James T. Walker wrote:
>
>>On December 08, 1999 at 20:28:11, Will Singleton wrote:
>>
>>>On December 08, 1999 at 17:55:23, Tom Kerrigan wrote:
>>>
>>>>Given the flurry of excitement about benchmarking TSCP in the recent past, I'm
>>>>surprised that only a handful of people have reported their score on the new
>>>>TSCP benchmark.
>>>>
>>>>For people who don't know, TSCP 1.41 has a new command ("bench") that will
>>>>report a nodes/second score. It takes less than a minute if you have a fast
>>>>computer. TSCP now comes with an executable for Windows, too, so you [probably]
>>>>don't even have to compile it yourself.
>>>>
>>>>I'm keeping a list of these scores so people can see how processor X might stack
>>>>up against processor Y at computer chess.
>>>>
>>>>My home page has been hit 406 times since I posted the new version of TSCP, and
>>>>I'd really appreciate it if some of you sent in your scores... =)
>>>>
>>>>Thanks,
>>>>Tom
>>>
>>>For your info, here's the last group of scores from the recent "flurry." I'll
>>>run the new one on my little old mac pb/300, and also on the Athlon 700.
>>>
>>>Will
>>>
>>>TSCP v1.3
>>>
>>>Platform Compiler nps Dann's build
>>>
>>>Athlon/700 msvc opt 86,700 x
>>>P3/500 msvc opt 63,246 x
>>>K6-2/400 msvc opt 57,163 x
>>>Cel/450 msvc opt 56,075
>>>K6-3/450 msvc opt 53,634 x
>><snip>
>>
>>Hello Will,
>>The K6-2/400 is faster than the K6-3-450. Can you tell me why this is?
>>Jim Walker
>
>No. I remember that when it happened, and there was some discussion. Who
>knows, maybe some machines get shipped with different cpu's than labeled.
>Overall, the numbers give a good idea of what to expect for generic integer
>programs.
>
>Will
Thanks Will,
The reason I asked is I had a K6-2-400 and I changed the motherboard to a
K6-3-450. Not one single program I have ran faster on the K6-2 and Programs
like Hiarcs and CSTal-2 gained more than the Mhz would indicate.
Jim Walker
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