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Subject: Re: Selecting a Processor

Author: Joachim Rang

Date: 01:05:26 08/24/05

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On August 23, 2005 at 17:13:53, Marc Lacrosse wrote:

>On August 23, 2005 at 10:18:47, Joachim Rang wrote:
>
>>On August 23, 2005 at 09:56:37, Svein Bjørnar Myrvang wrote:
>>
>>>I've been looking to buy a new PC, and seeing that processor-tests indicate that
>>>processors show different performance depending not only on clock speeds and
>>>type, but also on tasks performed, I'm left with the following question:
>>>Which of the various types of processors from AMD and Intel are best suited for
>>>chess engines? Has anyone done any systematic testing of their performance (with
>>>nunnmark or the like), and if so, are the results posted anywhere?
>>
>>Have a quick look here:
>>
>>http://www.beepworld.de/members39/computerschach2/chessmarks.htm
>>
>>Intel is currently not competitive when it comes to chess. The best
>>price-performance ratio is currently a AMD Athlon 64 3000+ Venice (Sockel 939)
>>for  about 100 $.
>>
>>Very good performance for a reasonable price is AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+ (about
>>350 $) which is a dual-core-Processor which means there are two processors in
>>one (well sort of). The true performance of such a processor is only achievable
>>with Dual-capable engines (such as Deep Junior, Deep Shredder and Deep Sjeng for
>>example).
>>
>>regards Joachim
>
>
>As far as I am a Fruit-maniac and fruit is still monoprocessor, its performances
>are on the par with all the AMD monsters on my Intel Centrino Dothan 755 2.2
>laptop, and i have it running under a tree in my garden :-)
>
>Marc

Marc what are your nps for Fruit 2.1 (official release) for the starting
position on your laptop?

Joachim



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