Author: Steve Maughan
Date: 03:50:18 09/03/01
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Uri, >I think that these mhz are misleading. >You say 206 mhz but shredder5.32 on p200MMX(only 200Mhz) >was at least 5 times faster in all the 7 positions. > >It is better if people talk about speed and not about mhz. The problem with 'speed' is you need some units to measure it. What would you suggest if not MHz - nps? This is not a good measure either. This has always been the problem when comparing processors. It would also seem that not all programs port as well to the ARM / Palm architechure. Crafty is 70 knps on a 200 Mhz Pentium and 5 knps on an iPAQ (x14). Shredder, by your estimates, is x5. Genius is a new program but Richard Lang says it is approximately 25% of the speed of a 200 MHz Pentium i.e. x4. What is definite is that MHz for MHz the ARM is faster than the DragonBall, has the higher clockspeed and better / larger memory access - therefore is better for chess. What we mustn't do is get carried away and think that a 206 MHz ARM is anywhere near the current desktop chips. Steve
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