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Subject: Re: Anandtech's Chess Benchmarks shows that Pentium is better than AMD

Author: Anthony Cozzie

Date: 15:53:15 12/31/04

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On December 31, 2004 at 18:33:01, Eran Karu wrote:

>Please click below.
>
>http://www.anandtech.com/linux/showdoc.aspx?i=2213&p=4
>
>In the graph, you can see that Pentium runs more nodes per second than AMD does.
>So, while many people say AMD is better than Pentium for chess, why does the
>graph show the opposite?
>
>Eran Karu

It appears you should buy a Pentium4 for all your TSCP analysis & games :)

More seriously, the P4 runs very small progams like TSCP well because they fit
entirely into its tiny caches.  The K8 is generally regarded as superior for
most real engines.  Of course, this is a 10-20% difference for most programs,
not exactly the end of the world if you want to buy a P4 for whatever other
reason . . .

anthony



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