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Subject: Re: AMD or Intel...

Author: Bo Persson

Date: 09:57:20 04/01/05

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On March 30, 2005 at 17:54:21, Mike Byrne wrote:

>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???...
>
>
>On a per Ghz basis, AMD is much better.  Some rough approximations using Crafty:
>
>Intel P4              375K nps/Ghz
>Intel PIII            575K nps/Ghz
>
>Opteron(AMD)
>(and other 64 bit AMD chips on 32bit OS)  750K nps/Ghz
>(and other 64 bit AMD chips on 64bit OS) 1000K nps/Ghz

True, but Intel almost reached 4 GHz, which was *their* goal.

"The fastest processor in the world".  :-)


Bo Persson



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