Author: Enrique Irazoqui
Date: 04:42:53 09/01/03
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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 My Fritzmark8 on a P4-3.06 with 64 MB hash is 1459 and 1117 KNS. Your 1135 on a Centrino 1.5 should become 1286 on a Centrino 1.7, which is about 13% slower than what I got with the P4-3.06. So it seems that for Fritz the Centrino 1.7 is roughly equivalent to a P4-2.7. Enrique
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