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Subject: Re: A question about the pentium4

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 05:48:39 04/20/01

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On April 20, 2001 at 08:41:41, Chris Carson wrote:

>Uri,
>
>ref: http://www.specbench.org/osg/cpu2000/results/cint2000.html
>Specint2000:
>                    Crafty
>             Peak   Peak Ratio
>P3  1.13GHZ  464    589
>P4  1.5GHZ   536    497
>AMD 1.33GHZ  539    759
>
>For Crafty the AMD was best then the P3 followed by the P4.  However
>for other programs the P4 was superior (thus the Peak overall improvement).
>
>However, the P4 was better for the TSCP chess programs:
>
>Ref: http://ucsu.colorado.edu/~kerrigat/bench/
>                  TSCP
>                  MIPS Benchmark
>Pentium 4/1700    1891
>Pentium 4/1500    1749
>Athlon/1200       1338
>Pentium III/1000  1168
>
>As I read this data for the two programs, it depends on the chess
>program and other factors (compiler options, design, ...).
>
>How do you read this?
>
>Any other thoughts/reasons for the descrepancy?
>
>Best Regards,
>Chris Carson

The P4 has a long pipe.  And then there is the RDRAM problem.  Both hurt
Crafty because the eval has so many if then else type comparisons.  I've
seen the same sort of performance differences in every case it has been
tried.



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