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Subject: Re: Effect of RAM speed on engine play

Author: Peter Stayne

Date: 11:34:13 06/07/03

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Hmmmm, interesting scores. But my system gets 2.5gb/s as well (SiSoft Sandra
2003.3.9.44), but I do understand that it's not the thoroughput that's the
difference in chess.

Pete


On June 07, 2003 at 10:21:38, Bo Persson wrote:

>On June 07, 2003 at 08:47:52, Peter Stayne wrote:
>
>>I believe I saw a thread a long time ago on the Winboard forum where Robert
>>Hyatt was discussing this, but I can't find it.
>>
>>Given equivalent CPU capabilities, would an engine on a machine with one of the
>>new 800MHz P4 QDR buses get a large or small or non-existent boost in speed over
>>standard DDR at say, 266MHz? or even SDRAM at 100/133?
>>
>>My 533MHz QDR operates at the same frequency as even old PC133 SDRAM memory, but
>>it delivers 4x as much data at each interval. Is the base frequency of the RAM
>>more important, or the amount of data overall?
>
>For a chess program, the access time (latency) is more important than the
>maximum throughput.
>
>I have 2 P4s, with different memory systems:
>
>P4 1.7 GHz, dual channel RDRAM, 2.5 GB/s stream throughput (SiSoft Sandra)
>P4 2.5 GHz, 533 MHz SDRAM, 1.9 GB/s throughput
>
>
>Guess which is the fastest for chess programs!  :-)
>
>>
>>Pete
>
>
>
>Bo Persson
>bop2@telia.com



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