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Subject: Re: A Strange Result, A P-IV at 1.7 Ghz Outperforms an Athlon at I.4 Ghz!

Author: Terry McCracken

Date: 04:57:30 01/21/02

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On January 21, 2002 at 06:47:36, Albert Silver wrote:

>On January 21, 2002 at 03:17:18, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:
>
>>On January 20, 2002 at 23:51:11, K. Burcham wrote:
>>
>>>On January 20, 2002 at 22:02:10, Terry McCracken wrote:
>>>
>>>>Can anyone explain how and why a P-IV at 1.7 Ghz with 512MB (PC800) RDRAM
>>>>outperformed an Athlon running at 1.4 Ghz with 266Mgh DDR Bus and 256MB of SDRAM
>>>>on a Fritzmark by a wide margin?
>>>>
>>>>The Fritzmark for the Pentium was 749 and the AMD a mere 548! Why? This is
>>>>contrary to the findings of this forum. That is a difference of 201, that is
>>>>large!
>>>>
>>>>An explantion would be appreciated, thanks!
>>>>
>>>>Terry
>>>
>>>
>>>this is not what i have tested. and i have tested several.
>>>set up the same chess position for each program. set the hash about
>>>the same for each program. after you test these two that you talk about,
>>>then come back with the post.
>>>my experience with the fritzmark test, the 1500mhz P4 was about the same in kns
>>>as the 1050mhz amd. the 1700mhz P4 is about the same kns as a 1200mhz amd.
>>>kburcham
>>
>>did you try branch optimized fritz7a to be benchmarked or oldie?
>
>I was going to ask the same thing. Terry, which version of Fritz was being used
>for the Fritzmark?
>
>                                       Albert

Sorry I didn't mention which version of Fritz.

It was Fritz 6 that was used for these benchmarks.

Terry



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