Author: Jonathan Parle
Date: 01:18:26 02/13/02
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On February 12, 2002 at 23:16:17, Martin Andersen wrote: >On February 12, 2002 at 09:50:08, Sally Weltrop wrote: > >>http://www.anandtech.com/cpu/showdoc.html?i=1584&p=5 > >Let's say doubling the CPU frequency means 60 ELO points, and >using SSDF's nr 1 which has 2715 (Chess Tiger), would give >an ELO of about 2900 for the program running on a 10 Ghz computer. >So Kramnik or Kasparov would probably not beat this monster. > >On the other hand this CPU surely has a long pipeline, meaning that >the work done per clock cycle is not much, so 2900 is an overestimate. >But if it was an Athlon... > >Martin. I'm not really sure doubling CPU speeds is worth 60 points. I know this was a demonstrable rule back in the late 80's, but I feel that the gains are now much smaller.
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