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Subject: Re: ICC match Rybka 32-bit v Quad Shredder 30'/game resumes ...

Author: Andreas Guettinger

Date: 12:51:37 01/16/06

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On January 16, 2006 at 15:30:15, Ingo Bauer wrote:

>On January 16, 2006 at 15:24:39, Andreas Guettinger wrote:
>
>>On January 16, 2006 at 14:27:57, Albert Silver wrote:
>>
>>>On January 16, 2006 at 14:02:04, George Sobala wrote:
>>>
>>>>On ICC right now:
>>>>
>>>>Rybka 1.01 Beta 10d 32-bit on a (mere) Pentium M 1.6GHz (Fishlet)
>>>>v
>>>>Deep Shredder on an Apple Quad 4x2.5GHz (Redshift)
>>>
>>>Could you give an idea as to what this might be equivalent to for a WinBox? In
>>>other words, would this be as fast as Deep Shredder running on an Athlon 4800+X2
>>>and the like? Faster? Slower?
>>>
>>>                                        Albert
>>>
>>
>>By calculation it would be equal to 7.5 Ghz of a Athlon64 or Opteron box (for
>>Chess), because the 2.5 Ghz PowerPC G5 is 0.75 times as fast as a Athlon64 3400
>>2.4 Ghz.
>>I don't know what the Ghz of a Athlon 4800. It would be similar as 1 x 7.5 Ghz,
>>2x 3.75 or quad 1.9 Ghz for multithreading.
>
>I operated Shredder at the IPCCC in Paderborn on a Quad Mac with 2.5 GHz. We
>calculated that it is as fast as an Quad Opteron at 2.5 GHz (+/- 10%). A single
>G5 is slower than a single Opteron (for chess!) but the speedup for 4 CPUs seems
>to be better. The overall result is about equal.
>
>Btw: Seeing it that way a quad Mac is one of the cheapest available systems with
>that much "chess calculating power"!
>
>Bye
>Ingo

Interesting. I only compared the NPS of single process engines and didn't take
in account the speedup.
Actually I would have thought the difference would be even bigger if a Intel
compiler and optimizations would be used for the Athlon/Opteron.
Maybe the 2 Gb of L2 Cache per CPU (4 Gb total) that is shared for 2 cores each
makes a difference.

If somebody has a Athlon 4800 X2 with Deep Shredder and a testposition we could
make a comparision.

regards
Andy




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