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Subject: Re: P4 Vs Athlon 64 bits

Author: Mathieu Pagé

Date: 08:38:16 08/15/05

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>>So you are maintaining that this thing is twice as fast as an Xeon 2.8ghz ?

>absolutely.  Here is some data.  I'm going to use one cpu on my xeon 2.8ghz box
>to search kopec position 22 to 14 plies...  Then I'll do the same on a single
>opteron CPU.  First the xeon:
>
>               14    52.77  -0.31   1. ... Bxe4 2. Bxe4 Qxc4 3. Qxc4 Rxc4
>                                    4. Nxb6 Nxb6 5. Bd3 Rc7 6. Nd4 Rd7
>                                    7. Nc6 a4 8. Bd4 Nfd5
>               14->   1:35  -0.31   1. ... Bxe4 2. Bxe4 Qxc4 3. Qxc4 Rxc4
>                                    4. Nxb6 Nxb6 5. Bd3 Rc7 6. Nd4 Rd7
>                                    7. Nc6 a4 8. Bd4 Nfd5
>
>and then the opteron:
>
>               14    26.58  -0.31   1. ... Bxe4 2. Bxe4 Qxc4 3. Qxc4 Rxc4
>                                    4. Nxb6 Nxb6 5. Bd3 Rc7 6. Nd4 Rd7
>                                    7. Nc6 a4 8. Bd4 Nfd5
>               14->  43.28  -0.31   1. ... Bxe4 2. Bxe4 Qxc4 3. Qxc4 Rxc4
>                                    4. Nxb6 Nxb6 5. Bd3 Rc7 6. Nd4 Rd7
>                                    7. Nc6 a4 8. Bd4 Nfd5
>
>So, 95 / 43.28 = 2.19X faster.
>
>Note that this is a 2.2ghz opteron, not 2.4, the 2.4 will be 10% faster still.
>Also note that this is a 32 bit version of crafty on the xeon (the xeon is a 32
>bit architecture) vs a 64 bit version of crafty on the opteron.
>
>there is simply no comparison...

Ok, i'm convinced. I did not tough the difference was that huge. Well, as I said
I know only a little about AMD processors.


>>btw I just saw you beat Diep, congratulations. I wonder how you manage that, I
>>mean aren't you playing remotely? Unbelivable!
>
>Yes.  Remotely, on a NUMA architecture with a program that knows nothing about
>NUMA, and on a parallel NUMA box with 8 cpus with a program that won't scale to
>8 cpus...
>
>amazing...
>
>:)

Good luck for the end of the tournament.

Mathieu Pagé



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