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Subject: Re: A question about the pentium4

Author: Chris Carson

Date: 06:29:43 04/20/01

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On April 20, 2001 at 08:48:39, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>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.

I was wondering about that.  Thanks for clearning that up.  :)

Best Regards,
Chris Carson



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