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Subject: Re: What's the best tool for PC benchmarking for chess purposes?

Author: Matt Taylor

Date: 13:31:06 12/08/02

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On December 08, 2002 at 16:20:09, Edward Seid wrote:

>What's the best tool and/or test for PC benchmarking for the purpose of
>comparing PC speeds for chess?
>
>If a tool offers two math benchmarks, one for integer math and another for
>floating point math, which is more relevant to chess?
>
>Sandra 2003 has a CPU arithmetic test which reports Dhrystone ALU benchmark in
>MIPS and Whetstone FPU in MFLOPS.  However, Sandra 2003 is a complete suite of
>benchmarking tools.  It would be nice to have a small-sized, single-purpose
>utility that would give an accurate benchmark for chess purposes.
>
>If we can all agree on a particular tool, it would be interested if people on
>CCC could report their hardware config along with their benchmark tests.
>
>Comments and suggestions are welcomed.

Sandra is like any other synthetic benchmark: not indicitive of real-world
performance.

The best benchmark I know of is running an actual chess engine (e.g. Crafty) and
reporting nps.

-Matt

• Re: What's the best tool for PC benchmarking for chess purposes? Mike Byrne 17:36:46 12/08/02
• Many Crafty versions, many compile versions, different bench results?? Edward Seid 14:10:58 12/08/02
  • Re: Many Crafty versions, many compile versions, different bench results?? Matt Taylor 15:33:38 12/08/02
    • Re: Many Crafty versions, many compile versions, different bench results?? Coxwell Strange 10:48:00 12/09/02
    • Re: Many Crafty versions, many compile versions, different bench results?? Bob Durrett 16:53:30 12/08/02
      • Re: Many Crafty versions, many compile versions, different bench results?? Sean Mintz 19:01:06 12/08/02

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