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Subject: Re: Quad Crafty: AMD Better?

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 11:36:13 06/21/02

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On June 21, 2002 at 08:30:45, Robert Henry Durrett wrote:

>
>Soon, maybe next Spring, Intel and AMD will have their advanced 64-bit
>microprocessors out and, hopefully, they will be well-suited for Quad Crafty
>chess engines.  Will AMD be the winner in this "Crafty Competition"?

Doubt it.  The fastest crafty on SMP will be one with really big on-die cache.
If the Hammer line makes something with huge cache like the Intel Xeon, then it
might be competitive.  Eugene's benchmark of a 2 CPU AMD system showed a 40%
gain for the second CPU.  60% loss is a bit disappointing.

With the Xeon that Bob uses, there is a very tiny SMP loss of only a few
percent.



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