Author: K. Burcham
Date: 16:59:51 12/08/03
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On December 08, 2003 at 19:49:04, Slater Wold wrote: >I remember the original itanium being really horrible. Hell, the SPEC numbers >are pretty terrible. > >But does anyone have any info with the original itanium and Crafty, or any other >chess SW? How horrible was it? > > >TIA! Slater, here is the Itanium 667 mhz, Jan. 2001, running Tom Kerrigan chess benchtest. very slow. As second test we have Tom Kerrigan's Simple Chess Program, a small program explicitly written to stress the processors branch predictors to the limit. The tool does this by a simulation of a game of chess. After calculating a number of moves three times the average speed of the processor in MIPS is produced. The EPIC hardware would theoretically be capable of outperforming IA-32 processors on this kind of activities but the x86 - IA-64 converter didn't do the job very well. The score of the Itanium would make you cry here too, even the Pentium 100 outperformed it while the 1,5GHz Pentium 4 was 20 times as fast http://www.tweakers.net/reviews/204/8
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