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Subject: Re: crafty faster on AMD however

Author: Aaron Gordon

Date: 00:54:14 09/28/02

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On September 27, 2002 at 23:42:03, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On September 26, 2002 at 21:04:12, Aaron Gordon wrote:
>
>>Slate ran many tests, we managed to get the speedup with one CPU using the
>>single-cpu binary vs dual cpu binary to 1.65x. Using one CPU in the dual cpu
>>binary vs two cpus in the dual cpu binary was 1.69x. In the particular tests you
>>are speaking of, was this the benchmark in crafty or some sort of test suite?
>>Also, which binary did you use for the tests? If you didn't use one of
>>mine or something very similar try going to http://speedycpu.dyndns.org/crafty/
>>and use one of the SMP binaries near the top. I'd like to see what sort of
>>speedup you get.
>
>
>I didn't run the SMP tests for AMD, I don't have a one here and have no plans
>to get one.  I posted a chart of data others provided.  I don't even remember
>which position we used now.  All that was significant was that all the speedup
>numbers (raw nps, not parallel search times) were in the 1.4-1.5 range with
>AMD, and 1.8 and above for the intel boxes...
>
>I personally believe it highlights a memory bottleneck...

Perhaps, but with my binaries the AMD systems get almost 1.7x & not 1.4-1.5. 1.7
to 1.8x speedup isn't a lot and with AMD cpus being faster I believe the dual
systems will beat any dual P4. Even some results I saw on here placed a dual
xeon 2.4 a little bit SLOWER than a single XP @ 2.52ghz. :)



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