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Subject: Re: flopteron seems quite miserable at chess as well!

Author: Sune Fischer

Date: 15:46:20 08/01/03

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On August 01, 2003 at 18:18:11, Russell Reagan wrote:

>On August 01, 2003 at 17:52:19, Tom Kerrigan wrote:
>
>>Maybe I've forgotten how to count, but it seems like "Flopteron" is running
>>faster than everything else except the AXP 3k+. And this is only at 1.8ghz. It's
>>expected to scale to 2.6ghz with AMD's current 0.13um process.
>
>1210 * (2.6 / 1.8) = 1748
>
>I wonder if this is even using a 64-bit executable. Doubtful (I didn't see
>anything to indicate it, even with a choppy web translator). Regardless, 1748
>blows everything else out of the water. Maybe 64-bit Crafty on an Opteron 2.6GHz
>will be twice as fast as the Xeon 3.06 GHz. It only needs a 35% increase from a
>64-bit compiler.

Yeah you said it :)

I can't wait for some real _64 bit_ benchmarks, using a _good_ compiler and a
relevant program.

flopSteron will kick behinds.

-S.



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