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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