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Subject: Re: Question: Itanium Info

Author: Slater Wold

Date: 17:59:26 12/08/03

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On December 08, 2003 at 19:59:51, K. Burcham wrote:

>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

Ok, that's the itanium doing 32.  Anyone got anything with it doing 64?  Or did
it suck there too?



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