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Subject: Re: Athlon vs Intel question?

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 07:58:15 08/29/01

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On August 29, 2001 at 09:33:13, Pham Minh Tri wrote:

>On August 29, 2001 at 08:41:42, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:
>
>>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
>
>I have read that page about Diep benchmark. Thanks for your information. I am
>still amazing how your nps is so small, comparing with others.
>
>A little worry: does a _typical_ chess program have the same result? Have you
>ever tried Crafty? (Perhaps your program is a special case because of too heavy
>knowledge, isn't it?).


Go to www.spec.org and look at specint numbers.  Crafty is one of those.  You
can find numbers for almost every CPU on the market.



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