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Subject: Re: More Pentium M (Centrino) benchmarks

Author: Anthony Cozzie

Date: 11:52:20 09/04/03

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On September 04, 2003 at 14:40:39, Terje Vagle wrote:

>On September 04, 2003 at 14:07:22, Roy Eassa wrote:
>
>>On September 04, 2003 at 05:41:10, Enrique Irazoqui wrote:
>>
>>>On September 04, 2003 at 02:00:34, P. Massie wrote:
>>>
>>>>I re-ran the benchmarks on a Centrino 1.5 ghz machine.  The software was Fritz
>>>>8, version 8.0.0.23, with 64 MB of hash.  I got a result of 1135 for the
>>>>Fritzmark and 1025 kn/s.
>>>>
>>>>Paul
>>>
>>>With Fritz 8.0.0.23 and 64MB hash, on a P4-3.06 I get 1238 Fritzmark and 1120
>>>KNS. It seems that the Centrino 1.7 is slightly faster than the P4-3.06 for
>>>chess.
>>>
>>>Enrique
>>
>>
>>What makes the Centrino so much faster at a relatively low GHz, even than the
>>Athlon or P3?
>
>It seems to be the 1 MB On-Die Level 2 (L2) Cache. What else could it be?
>
>>
>>Can one buy a desktop system using a Centrino instead of a P4?

don't forget branches: the predictor is larger and the misprediction penalty is
smaller.



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