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Subject: Re: AMD or Intel...

Author: Grzegorz Sidorowicz

Date: 03:14:15 03/31/05

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I thought whole life AMD is better than Pentium family but
gradually I have stopped think in that way.
If we compare both processors we should also compare their price and
results reached by programs which we prefere to use. Difference in speed
between two programs can be really big.

According to results reached by diffrent programs I have to tell you
story about comparing results in perft test.

In initial position my program on PIV in perft test reach depth 6 after
21.267 seconds and Atak engine on the same machine is 30% slower but
on Athlon 1700+ my program is 30% slower than Atak so whole
difference is 60%. It simply means all depends on kind of program we
want to use.

I agree that a large majority of programs are faster on Athlon but reason of
this fact is in my opinion not directly in kind of architecture those
processors. Who know maybe if programmer write on his own machine his
program is optimized on this machine but perhaps it isn't rule.


On March 30, 2005 at 04:23:13, axel binevskiy wrote:

>Why all the chess engines testings conducted on AMD processors? Is Intel Pentium
>4 not good for that???...



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