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Subject: Re: Athlon vs Intel question?

Author: Vincent Diepeveen

Date: 05:41:42 08/29/01

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On August 29, 2001 at 03:39:52, Pham Minh Tri wrote:

>I see that recently many computer chess programmers prefer Athlon to Intel. I
>have not any Athlon and experience about it (but planing to buy one). However, I
>see the benchmark of TSCP (in Tom Kerrigan site) shows that Intel is faster than
>Athlon in almost all cases. So I do not understand that preference: because of
>price only? Or is TSCP not a typical chess program (in terms of complexity)? Or
>do I miss something?
>An additional question: Could VC6 optimize for Athlon?
>Thanks.

www.aceshardware.com to see how an intel optimized version of diep
is already faster at K7.
  120k nps at dual K7 1.2Ghz MP DDR ram
  106k nps at a dual Xeon 1.7 Ghz intel RDRAM

VC6 with sp5 + processor pack is considerably faster on AMD.

Still trying to figure out here how much as i can't compile right now
at the AMD.

Best regards,
Vincent



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