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Subject: Power4 and Crafty benchmark?

Author: Gregor Overney

Date: 14:49:46 10/05/01


I got the SPECint2000 values for IBM's Power4 without a detailed listing on how
well it performed regarding the Crafty benchmark. So far, a 1.4 Athlon is still
leading with 793 compared to P4/2GHz with 644.

The information I got so far is from:
http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/pseries/hardware/datactr/p690_specs.html

However, IBM packed two CPU cores into one causing a monster with around 170
million transistors. The CPU runs at 1.3 GHz. It has a great bandwith of over
100 Gbytes/s between L2 cache and the two CPU cores.

It certainly looks like a nice multi-processor for the next generation of chess
computers.

I looked at www.spec.org, but there was nothing reported so far. Do you have the
detailed info?

More about this is in Microprocessor Report, vol 13, number 13 from October 6,
1999.

Gregor



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