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Subject: Re: chess benchmarks

Author: Rajen Gupta

Date: 13:50:27 04/11/01

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which fritzmark is this (ie from which version of fritz?) problem is  not every
one will have the same version of fritz.

rajen

On April 10, 2001 at 20:03:23, Terry McCracken wrote:

>On April 10, 2001 at 08:26:55, Rajen Gupta wrote:
>
>>there is always a question of the performance of chess programmes on the various
>>different hardware permutations and combinations, all which may potentially have
>>some impact on performance
>>
>>type of processor-celeron; duron; coppermine; athlon; willamette (and even xeon
>>with their large cache ram)
>>speed of the processor
>>frontside bus-66;100 or 133 mhz
>>memory-total ram and whether cas2 or 3;type of ram-sdram vs ddr and later on
>>when the alternate chipsets for the willamette are released rambus ram vs other
>>cheaper types!
>>
>>wonder whether someone has suggestions about creating a standad set of chess
>>benchmarks and presenting these to the various hardware sites to include them in
>>their reviews.i'm sure they would be more than happy to do these as this would
>>potentially increase the size of their audience!
>>
>>as an alternative maybe members of this forum could submit their ''fritz marks''
>>or ''rebelmark''etc on their respective systems and a database could thus be
>>built up
>>
>>rajen
>
>Hello I tried this at the first of the month, but no one seemed too interested?
>I'm speaking of the "Fritzmark" as a chess benchmark but it was Apr.1 and there
>had been someone else posting spoof "Fritzmarks" so I guess people lost interest
>fast.
>Too bad, I think your idea is a very good one.
>
>FWIW, My platform is Win/98 500MGh._Old_ PIII CPU, 128MB SDRAM with a 100MGh.
>Bus.
>If I free up my resources after I reboot and using 64MB for hash, I can get a
>"Fritzmark" of 324 which equates to 466KN/S.
>I believe the Athlons at 1.2GHh were hitting about 1,200,000 pos. per sec.
>
>Terry



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