Author: Hristo
Date: 13:31:47 04/24/01
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On April 24, 2001 at 10:05:26, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On April 24, 2001 at 08:37:04, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: > >>On April 24, 2001 at 03:33:29, Trefor Deane wrote: >> >>>Are all the best Chess Programs only written for the PC,Can anyone please >>>recommend any Chess Programs for Apples G4 processor? Here in the UK we don't >>>seem to have the same choice that you guys have. >>>Thanks >>> >>>Tref. >> >>Apple is everything but helpful. I emailed them last 2 weeks >>and they don't want to say a thing. I have no idea how slow diep would >>be on a G4, they only make PR for how fast their FPU (called velocity >>engine at the g4) is. >> >>My sister has a dual G4 at home, so i'll compile DIEP there one day. >>However for programmers G4 isn't interesting in advance as it >>runs at most at 733Mhz and dual at 533Mhz. Compare that to a dual 1Ghz intel >>and within a few months dual 1.5Ghz K7 !! > > >That doesn't say a thing. Compare a 600mhz 21264 to a 1.5ghz intel. The >21264 will blow the doors off the Intel processor in any benchmark. The true to some degree ;-) the Alphas are good, indeed, but the G4 are over-rated ... this is not to say that the G4 is bad, however it is nowhere near an alpha and it is on par with PIII and Athlon at the same frequency. --- SPEC-95 results --- -------------------- int --- fp --- ALPHA 21264 667MHz 44 66 PowerPC G4+ 773 32.1 23.9 AMD Athlon 750 32.9 25.4 PIII Xeon 733 35.6 30.4 >G* processors are very very good, even without outlandish clock rates. Does >it really matter if the cpu runs at 1.5 ghz if it can't get data to/from memory >that fast? > >Bus speed is also important... Intel is lagging there. Didn't they boost their bus speed ... with the right memory and chipset they have 2.5 times the troughput of the best G4 ... I read this somwhere, however the actual site is escaping me at the moment. ;-) Please take this with a grain of salt. hristo
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