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Subject: Re: Air-Cooled @ 10GHz, today

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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