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Subject: Re: RDRAM vs DDR > Mr. Hyatt

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 06:24:08 04/18/03

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On April 18, 2003 at 03:51:02, Joshua Haglund wrote:

>Dear Robert, and fellow CCC members.
>
>If I recall correctly.... correct me if I'm wrong... but...
>
>I read on here that Rambus RAM is bad for chess and ddr is better for chess.
>
>What or how is this possible? Is it true with all applications or just certain
>or all chess programs?
>Or am I way off if left field.

RAMBUS ram has a pretty good bandwidth number.  The problem with it is it also
comes with a pretty bad latency number.

I've run Crafty on most everything and I get the best performance on SDRAM.  DDR
is next with RAMBUS in third place.

No idea if this holds for all chess engines.  And it certainly doesn't hold for
all applications
as our graphics stuff runs better on the higher-bandwidth RAMBUS memory.  As
does our
high-powered math programs that stomp thru big arrays many times.





>
>My CIS teacher just "loves" Rambus.
>
>Thanks in advance,
>
>Joshua



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