Author: Vincent Diepeveen
Date: 16:02:26 07/23/03
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On July 22, 2003 at 20:04:01, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On July 22, 2003 at 15:09:13, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: > >>On July 22, 2003 at 14:54:48, Rajen Gupta wrote: >> >>You are comparing x86 executables here. >>That's like running 8 bits XT executables at the P4. >> >>Do you understand that? >> >>If not then it is useless to say that things will change for chess software a >>lot when there is native good x86-64 compilers for opteron (and future intel >>x86-64 platforms which does *not* include that 3.06Ghz Xeon MP). >> >>Note that the 3.06Ghz Xeon MP you show there is about $5000 a piece. spending >>$16000 to get 4 of them is pretty expensive therefore. > >4 * $5000 == $16000? > >strange math. My wallet gave an overflow i guess :) > >> >>Also note that most of the benchmarks are not close to how chessprogs react onto >>extra registers and such. >> >>>the second graph on this page: >>> >>>http://www.anandtech.com/cpu/showdoc.html?i=1818&p=5 >>> >>>(general usage performance; business winstone 2002) >>> >>>and the 3rd graph on this page: >>> >>>http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu/display/opteron-1_19.html >>> >>>Performance: Office and Content Creation Applications >>> business winstone 2002 >>> >>> i have noted these bench marks correlate very well with chess benchmarks;based >>>on these the opteron does not seem much better than an athlon xp; infact one of >>>aaron's 2400 babies might thrash the opteron pretty badly; >>> >>>in all other tests the opteron is to put it mildly "pathetic" i doubt that >>>anyone will ever want to buy such a system esp when intel has come out with >>>this:http://www.gamepc.com/labs/view_content.asp?id=xeon3061MB&page=1
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