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Subject: Re: Fritzmarks, Ram Bandwidth & NPS

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 00:08:24 02/13/02

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On February 13, 2002 at 02:12:25, Aaron Gordon wrote:

>I'm sure it's common sense to a lot of you here that large hash size's + high
>ram bandwith = more Nps. Well, that is definately true (even with smaller hash
>size's). Here's a few benchmarks I did to compare how much bandwidth it takes to
>increase x%. All tests were done on an overclocked Athlon XP 1900+ (1.6GHz),
>Asus A7V266-E (KT266a) with 512mb PC2400 DDR & Windows XP. I used the Fritz6 GUI
>which use's Fritz 5.32 for the Fritzmark.
>
>32mb hash
>1850MHz, 1.3gb/sec ram
>1171 FritzMarks | 1680Kn/s
>
>128mb hash
>1850MHz, 1.3gb/sec ram
>1098 FritzMarks | 1575Kn/s
>
>32mb hash
>1850MHz, 2.2gb/sec ram
>1212 FritzMarks | 1755Kn/s
>
>128mb hash
>1850MHz, 2.2gb/sec ram
>1191 FritzMarks | 1690Kn/s
>
>
>Here it shows for the 32mb hash test that a 69.23% increase in ram bandwidth
>increase's the NPS 4.46%.
>
>For the 128mb test a 69.23% increase in ram bandwith resulted in a 7.3% increase
>in NPS.
>
>This should give you a rough idea of what to expect when upgrading to a fast DDR
>(KT266a) based system vs a fast SDR (KT133a) or slow DDR (AMD 760, KT266, etc)
>system.

What exactly does a "fritzmark" measure?
Without a definition it might as well be "salamanders per second"



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