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

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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