Author: Bertil Eklund
Date: 23:08:41 04/03/00
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On April 04, 2000 at 01:28:15, Jeremiah Penery wrote: >On April 03, 2000 at 22:20:09, Wayne Lowrance wrote: > >>I have heard that certain programs seem stronger/weaker verses Pentium and >>Athylon cpu's. It would be interesting (to me at least) hearing opinions on the >>relative merrits of the following programs verses cpu type. Based on slower >>clock speed knowledge of two competitors draw your conclusions as to how that >>translates to 1 gig devices ( Pentium III's arent being delivered to my >>knowledge). >> >>1 Crafty >>2 Junior6 >>3 Fritz6 >>4 Chess Tiger12 >> >>I seem to recall that Dr. Bob has said the Pentium is more suitable for Crafty. >>If true I wonder how important relative to crafty's playing strength. >> >>It would be very nice if I could hear from the programmer of each but all inputs >>are appreciated, after all end users experience is a important too. > >I know for Crafty, the PII/PIII is substantially faster than the equivalently >clocked K62/K63/Athlon. A K62-450 is only something like 10% faster than a >PII-300 (IIRC. It's probably a little more than that...) for Crafty. > >Many programs prefer the AMD chips, however. Rebel and CS-Tal I know prefer the >AMD chips quite a bit over the Intel ones. For CS-Tal, at least, part of this >is due to the large and fast L2 cache. Hi! Yes you are right, for Crafty an AMD450 K6-2 is about equal with a P2-333. Most programs I know seems to be equal or better on Athlons P3 (clockwise. I haven't heard that Crafty dislikes Athlon. Where have you seen that. Bertil
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