Author: Keith Evans
Date: 09:31:23 05/10/02
Go up one level in this thread
On May 09, 2002 at 10:46:58, Roy Eassa wrote: > >Just a point of math: if x is 70% higher than y, then y is about 58.8% lower >than x. > >(Earlier you said that the K7 was 70% faster than the P4. If that's true, then >it cannot also be true that the P4 is 70% slower than the K7.) > >BTW, I am making NO statement in the Intel vs. AMD war, only a math comment. > I would say that y is about 42% lower than x. x is 70% higher than y: x = (1 + 0.70)y y is 42% lower than x: y = (1 - 0.42)x I'm pretty sure that this is standard usage. It's often not clear what people mean when they use English to express performance differences. For example here's one from my company's website "100x lower power consumption." What would "1x lower power consumption" mean? >On May 09, 2002 at 01:08:49, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: > >>On May 07, 2002 at 19:30:41, Chritopher A. Morgan wrote: >> >>who believes such crap in a CCC forum. >> >>the intel p4s are 70% slower for the average chessprogram than a K7. >>note both do not scale lineair upwards. P4s worst. >> >>>Tom’s Hardware ran extensive tests comparing the AMD 2100+ with the new Intel >>>Pent 4/2533. Results were published May 6. Intel was superior in all tests. >>>Their summary follows: >>> >>> >>>The results of this test don't leave much room for doubt, while also not >>>offering a lot of surprise. In all 25 benchmark disciplines, the Intel Pentium >>>4/2533 is well ahead of the AMD Athlon XP 2100+. Together with 533 MHz RDRAM, >>>the P4 gains accordingly in performance through an FSB clock that has been >>>increased from 100 MHz to 133 MHz. The overclocking benchmarks show how far the >>>processors can be pushed. Not even an overclocked AMD Athlon XP 2100+ with a >>>water-cooling system can offer serious competition for the tuned Pentium 4/2800. >>>Here, it should be noted that the P4/2533 ran stably at 2800 MHz with a standard >>>CPU cooler. >>> >>>Times are getting tougher for AMD if they want to stay on top of things. The new >>>Thoroughbred core needs to be released soon and then we need to see some hefty >>>clock speed to keep up with Intel's Pentium 4. >>> >>>Christopher
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.