Author: Enrique Irazoqui
Date: 08:19:47 07/18/02
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On July 18, 2002 at 09:35:12, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: >On July 18, 2002 at 08:51:53, Enrique Irazoqui wrote: > >>On July 18, 2002 at 08:39:20, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: >> >>>On July 18, 2002 at 08:38:16, Enrique Irazoqui wrote: >>> >>>>I have been offered a P4-2.53 with 533 bus. Are there any tests showing how this >>>>processor does in chess compared with the AMD? >>>> >>>>Any information will be welcome. >>>> >>>>Thanks, Enrique >>> >>>divide by 1.7 for chessprograms to have the real speed of it in AMD K7 Mhz. >> >>I don't think this works, since it would make the P4-2.53 slower than the AMD >>1800+ (1533), while in fact the 1800+ is not faster than the P4-2.2 >> >>Enrique > >Yes it is slower. If you already 'guess' without testing how fast it is >for you, why do you ask the question? Because I trust better your knowledge than my guessing. Thank you all for your answers. You made me save 3000 €. :) Enrique >Vaste majority of chess programs if optimized for intel and K7, the >1 Ghz for a K7 is equal to 1.7Ghz for p4 is true. > >Special Fritz versions, DIEP, crafty, and another zillion of chessprograms >that were accurately tested they gave this result. Also specint when >not using a buggy intel c++ compiler is giving this result everywhere. > >For a *current* p4. We don't know what the future brings of course for >the P4. However i wouldn't call a new chip a P4 anymore though they will >probably sell it as an 'improved p4'. > >The bigger L2 cache is of course a joke for computerchess when running single >cpu. The P4 Xeons do not have 512KB but 256KB L2 cache. > >Right now the K7 0.18 micron 1.73Ghz is king. for smp the dual k7 is king. >there the diff between intel and amd is more than 1.7, because of a better >smp design from amd (it's simply taken over from alpha, so not real new >and of course still pathetic compared to super's).
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