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Subject: Re: AMD 1.73Ghz vs Intel P4 2.53Ghz -=- The winner is...........

Author: Slater Wold

Date: 05:02:29 05/27/02

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On May 27, 2002 at 07:47:13, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:

>On May 27, 2002 at 06:37:49, Slater Wold wrote:
>
>>On May 27, 2002 at 06:23:38, Kurt Utzinger wrote:
>>
>>>If only looking at the speed of the chess programs [not much difference] and
>>>considering the price between AMD 1.73 GHz and P4 2.53 GHz [much difference],
>>>the decision of what to buy should still be an easy one: AMD and by the way,
>>>such comparisons [oranges with apples] do not count for me. Finally, I think it
>>>is just a matter of taste which CPU to prefer.
>>>Kurt
>>
>>This wasn't testing price.  It wasn't testing value.  It wasn't testing users
>>taste.
>>
>>It was testing one thing:  speed.
>>
>>And say all you want, Intel has the fastest CPU available.
>
>please wait with that conclusion before you have a K7 optimized
>executable. Obviously that requires gcc 3.1,
>but even the msvc compiled executable (which is already way faster
>than the intel one) is going to kick butt here i guess, despite
>that it has no K7 optimizations and no branch prediction reordering
>pass (already only the branch prediction reordering is like 12.5%
>extra speedup for DIEP, even if it's less for crafty, DO THE MATH).

You're not going to get a faster EXE than the Intel 5.0 one.  It makes the
fastest Crafty EXE known to man.

And just to recap:

AMD 1.73Ghz using optimized Intel 5.0 compiler:  940k nps

P4 2.53Ghz using the EXE off Hyatt's FTP site:  965k nps



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