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Subject: Re: Centrino

Author: Joachim Rang

Date: 11:19:48 08/31/03

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On August 31, 2003 at 12:36:01, P. Massie wrote:

>On August 31, 2003 at 11:24:31, Aaron Gordon wrote:
>
>>On August 31, 2003 at 09:53:32, Russell Reagan wrote:
>>
>>>On August 31, 2003 at 09:46:00, Ricardo Gibert wrote:
>>>
>>>>On August 31, 2003 at 03:22:52, Jeroen Noomen wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>Hi all,
>>>>>
>>>>>When looking at the notebook market, I see more and more
>>>>>systems with the Intel Centrino processor. Ranging from
>>>>>1,3 GHz to 1,7 GHz. Up till now nobody could tell me the
>>>>>difference in speed between the Centrino and the 'regular'
>>>>>P4, or the AMD 2700 and up.
>>>>>
>>>>>One salesman told me that the 1,3 GHz Centrino is comparable
>>>>>to the P4 2,4 GHz. Does anybody know more about this? How
>>>>>good is the 1,7 GHz Centrino? Do we have some Fritz marks
>>>>>on these new guys? Are they good for chess programs?
>>>>>
>>>>>Thanks for your comments!
>>>>>
>>>>>Best wishes, Jeroen
>>>>
>>>>I have a 1.3 Ghz centrino laptop. I reported here on CCC roughly 1 million NPS
>>>>running Ruffian. Someone else with a PIV reported that this was equivalent to a
>>>>2.4 Ghz PIV, so the salesman's assessment is in agreement. With different
>>>>applications, this rough equivalency can be expected to vary of course.
>>>
>>>My Athlon 2400+ (2GHz) gets roughly 1Mnps from the opening position, and up to
>>>about 1.3+ Mnps in the endgame with Ruffian. This sounds similar to Centrino
>>>1.3GHz. I imagine the 1.7GHz chip would perform very nicely.
>>
>>In Crafty the Centrino 1.6GHz is identical to an Athlon 1.6GHz speed-wise. I
>>compared my system clocked down to 1.6GHz and compared them with numbers from
>>Sean Mintz.
>
>I got a Fritzmark of 1135 using 95MB of hash on a Centrino 1.5 ghz.  Based on my
>comparison of two PIV's I have (1.8 and 2.0) that seems roughly equivalent to a
>PIV running at about 2.8 ghz.  So the salesman's claim seems reasonable.
>
>Paul
>
>Paul


Paul, could you please rerun the Fritzmark with only 64 MB Hash and publish the
kn/s not the number? Than we can compare:

http://www.beepworld.de/members38/lchristian/cpu-chess.htm

http://www.beepworld.de/members39/computerschach2/chessmarks.htm

thanks in advance.

regards Joachim



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