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Subject: Re: PIII-500 vs Cyrix P150 Genius 5 Dos

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 18:47:36 03/22/99

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On March 21, 1999 at 17:53:22, Robert Trombley wrote:

>I have setup several identical positions on both machines and timed them to see
>how long it took to find the best move.  I have setup about 10 unique positions,
>and discovered that at least for these positions, the PIII is on average only 3X
>faster.  In other words, if it took the P150  30 seconds to find the best move,
>the PIII-500 would find it in about 10 seconds.  I would have guessed that the
>faster machine should be at least 7X faster.  The program I used was Genius 5
>dos with 31M hash and normal settings.  On the PIII-500 it did poorly against
>Crafty clones on 5 minute games with 5 second increments for entering moves
>manually.  Granted, I am giving time odds to the clones, and I did not play a
>large enough number of games.  Does the 3X factor sound correct?

yes.  divide the clock frequencies and you get just over 3X.  The new PIII
instructions are worthless at present.



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