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Subject: Re: Intel Xeon information

Author: Aaron Gordon

Date: 00:13:11 01/16/03

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On January 15, 2003 at 21:30:56, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On January 15, 2003 at 19:30:14, Aaron Gordon wrote:
>
>>Here's a little bit of math to prove my point. This cpu speedup factor was from
>>Hyatt, by the way. The P3-1GHz vs P4-1.6GHz was tested here. Anyway, as I said
>>before the 8x1GHz P3 would be > P4-2.8x2 w/ SMT. Here's how. If a P3-1GHz =
>>P4-1.6GHz you can figure this...
>>
>>Lets take the total MHz into account. 8x1000 * 8.0 p3 GHz, * 1.6 = 12.8 P4 GHz.
>>Getting a speedup of 5.9 (1+(8-1)*0.7) you get 5.9 p3 GHz / 9.44 P4 GHz.
>>For the P4.. (1+(2-1)*.7) = 1.7x speedup, also add 30% for SMT. This comes out
>>to 2.21x speedup. Take 2.8 * 2.21 and you get 6.188 P4 GHz.
>>9.44GHz > 6.188GHz P4 GHz. 8x1GHz P3 would be over 52% faster.
>
>
>Except you overlook the PIII vs PIV xeon numbers I posted.  My dual 2.8 is
>almost exactly twice as fast as my quad 700.  The quad is PIII xeon, the
>dual is PIV xeon with SMT on.

I was going on my numbers. So far the binaries I've compiled have been the
fastest I've seen so far so I bench with those, profiling for each individual
chip. P4 Binary for the P4, P3 binary for the P4, etc. P4-1.6GHz gets 620kn/s
and a P3-1GHz gets about 600kn/s.

I never saw a post with both being compared. I do remember some posts a while
back.. you said something about 1.2mn/s in Crafty with GCC and 1.6mn/s with the
IntelC compiler on the Quad. As far as the P4-2.8 w/ SMT benchmarks go all I've
seen you post ~1.9-2.0mnps runs. This is a far cry from 3.2mn/s (double the quad
700).  A dual 2400+ MP gets almost 2.2 million nps in the Crafty v18.11
benchmark, btw. IntelC 5.01 compile w/ profiling.



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