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Subject: Re: Pentium III 500 MHZ, is it that much better?

Author: Matt

Date: 15:38:08 03/05/99

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On March 04, 1999 at 03:53:20, blass uri wrote:

>
>On March 04, 1999 at 03:28:08, Baldomero Garcia, Jr. wrote:
>
>>I saw at the Computer Shopper site that the new Pentium III 500 Mhz machines
>>were available now.
>>I was wondering how much faster they were compared to the PII 450 Mhz.  I
>>visited the Byte Online
>>web site, and basically, the answer was that in some cases, the PIII 500 were
>>20% faster (which is
>>significant), while in some others the PII 450 were actually faster.

The pIII contains some new MMX type instructions, but is otherwise almost
identical to the pII.  in other words, a pIII 450 would probably score very very
close to a pII in nps on a chess engine.

>
>The question is what is the speed for chess programs.
>
>where can I find information about the ratio of speed between PII450,  P200MMX
>and 600MHz Alpha-21164a.

We checked this on crafty 14.10, which is a while ago, but we had a good number
of processors in the mix, including the 500MHz and 666MHz alpha 21164a, and of
course, a bunch of intel and a few mac ones in there too.  The pII 450 was not
even released at the time, i think the fastest pII on the list is 300.


Matt



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