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Subject: Re: Why are AMD processors "better" for computer chess?

Author: Anthony Cozzie

Date: 15:11:12 03/11/04

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On March 11, 2004 at 17:09:49, Jasmine Baer wrote:

>If someone could help me understand this, I'd appreciate it.  I'm smart enough
>to understand some technical jargon, so feel free to expound...
>
>Real-world advice = advice from folks who actually use the equipment in question
>on a daily basis, not advice or feedback from some magazine or something.

It is very simple.

P4 has a longer pipeline than Athlon.  This means it is clocked higher, but it
takes more of a penalty on branch mispredictions.

With something like decoding a divx: no problem
With chess programs: big problem

anthony



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