Author: Mike Byrne
Date: 17:36:46 12/08/02
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On December 08, 2002 at 16:31:06, Matt Taylor wrote: >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
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