Computer Chess Club Archives


Search

Terms

Messages

Subject: Re: Engine knps and video card question

Author: J. Wesley Cleveland

Date: 14:20:28 01/15/02

Go up one level in this thread


On January 15, 2002 at 16:31:44, John Hatcher wrote:

>I just installed a new video card and, quite unexpectedly, I found that all my
>chess engines (using the Fritz interface) are reporting significantly higher
>knps during analysis - in the range of 50% faster knps.
>
>The video upgrade was a modest one - from onboard INTEL AGP (8mb shared) to a
>ATI Xpert 128 (16mb).  The computer is a 333mhz Celeron with 294MB memory.
>
>Does this make any sense?  How does upgrading video increase knps of a chess
>engine?  Does it?
>

I would guess you were having severe memory contention between the cpu and the
video card.



This page took 0 seconds to execute

Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700

Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.