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Subject: Re: shredder marks has no problem

Author: Vincent Diepeveen

Date: 05:32:55 02/09/04

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On February 09, 2004 at 08:17:11, Aaron Gordon wrote:

>On February 08, 2004 at 21:45:09, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:
>
>>On February 08, 2004 at 18:12:42, Aaron Gordon wrote:
>>
>>>On February 08, 2004 at 17:21:57, Ingo Bauer wrote:
>>>
>>>>Hi
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>Shredder8Mark:
>>>>>
>>>>>Athlon XP 2.5GHz / 218fsb(436DDR):
>>>>>64mb hash : 504kn/s  -  3712 Shredder8Mark
>>>>>409mb hash: 334kn/s  -  2227 Shredder8Mark
>>>>>
>>>>>Athlon XP 2.5GHz / 200fsb(400DDR):
>>>>>64mb hash : 503kn/s  -  3712 Shredder8Mark
>>>>>409mb hash: 309kn/s  -  2227 Shredder8Mark
>>>>>
>>>>>Athlon XP 2.5GHz / 166fsb(333DDR):
>>>>>64mb hash : 476kn/s  -  3712 Shredder8Mark
>>>>>409mb hash: 263kn/s  -  1856 Shredder8Mark
>>>>>
>>>>>I'm impressed.. going from 166 to 218 resulted in a 27% increase in kn/s. Way
>>>>>back in the day when I tested Crafty it showed no increase in kn/s from changes
>>>>>in bus speeds (latency or memory bandwidth). Interesting... Looks like my next
>>>>>system will be a freon cooled Athlon FX running over 3GHz and 300fsb
>>>>
>>>>Dont trust this Shreddermark!
>>>>
>>>>Check the same thing with a Fritzmark and/or Crafty. Somethings wrong weith that
>>>>Shreddermark.
>>>>
>>>>Ingo
>>>
>>>I suspected the same.. so.. I did a few tests. The test was done using infinite
>>>analysis from the start position. The ply next to the name of the engine is
>>>where I took the total node count and divided it by the time to ply.
>>>Here are the results:
>>>
>>>Athlon XP 2.5GHz and 384mb hash for all engines:
>>>
>>>Shredder 8 @ 18 ply:
>>>218fsb: 409kn/s
>>>166fsb: 409kn/s
>>>
>>>X3D Fritz @ 15 ply:
>>>218fsb: 1116.9kn/s
>>>166fsb: 1116.9kn/s
>>>
>>>Hiarcs 9 @ 13 ply:
>>>218fsb: 275.35kn/s
>>>166fsb: 269.23kn/s
>>>
>>>Junior 8 @ 17 ply:
>>>218fsb: 1999.54kn/s
>>>166fsb: 1987.98kn/s
>>>
>>>Deep Fritz 7 @ 15 ply:
>>>218fsb: 1144.69kn/s
>>>166fsb: 1129.83kn/s
>>>
>>>As you can see a higher fsb (and lower latency) did next to nothing.
>>>ShredderMark definitely has some problems.
>>
>>Not at all. Shreddermark has NO problems.
>>
>>Shredder like DIEP just uses your RAM more efficient than Fritz&co, however
>>unlike DIEP, shredder is doing it at a way higher nps than DIEP.
>>
>>That means that the number of random accesses to the RAM is really a lot bigger
>>than it is for Fritz&co.
>>
>>I fully understand this from Shredder and i fear the day already that processors
>>get a lot faster without having a L3 cache of say 64MB :)
>
>Do you not see that Shredder got absolutely *NO* increase in kn/s from a 30%+
>increase in bus speed? In the real world Shredder gets no increase.. in
>ShredderMark it shows odd results and increases.. probably due to GUI overhead
>(spending more time switching to various positions rather than searching a
>position) and poor timer code.

the short measuring time will have some influence. BUS speed is not holy.
It *must* improve latency.

Until you manage to proof that something improves latency, you won't find any
speed diffs with shredder using the same cpu, i'm sure of that.

A faster bus speed doesn't mean a faster latency to memory automatically.

Only in general it means that.

Also, you overclock your hardware just too much.

I'm sure that the 1 week garantuee you give at it is sometimes not even covering
your ****, as it will be broken after 6 days or so :)







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