Author: Amir Ban
Date: 03:15:37 11/05/97
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I and others did some measurements during the tournament. I believe Rebel gets excellent results on the K6 because of special cicumstances. Our results: K6 faster by 10%-12% than equivalent P6. K6/233 faster by 14% than K6/200. P2/300 faster by 16% than K6/233. Amir On November 04, 1997 at 09:26:47, Hansjoerg wrote: >It was often said that MChess had run on a slower hardware than some >other programs running on the Pentium II/300. This might be wrong! >The speed difference between K6 and the Intel cpus is program dependent. >The german css magazine (4/97 and 5/97) (also some reader feedback) gave >some information about the speed difference. > >Some results: >Rebel 8 on K6/233 20% faster than on Pentium 2/266 ! >Rebel 8 on K6/233 30% faster than on P200 MMX >Rebel 8 on K6/200 same speed as on Pentium 2/266 >MChess 5 on K6/200 20% faster than on Pentium P200 MMX >Hiarcs 6 on K6/200 15% faster than on Pentium P200 MMX >Genius 5 and Fritz 5 don't take advantage of the AMD K6 >(K6 has nearly same speed as the Pentium MMX with equal frequency) ! > >I think that Fritz and Genius are very well optimized for intel cpus and >so can't take advantage of the special K6 jump prediction unit ?! > >So, may be that the K6/233 is the fastest available cpu for MChess, >(and) the Pentium ||/300 the fastest cpu for Fritz !? >- or the diffrence is very small > >- there are also some other dependencies (ram/cache size, >motherboard,..) > >Hansjoerg
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