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Subject: Re: AMD Processors for Chess ?

Author: Frank Schneider

Date: 23:32:48 07/06/99

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On July 06, 1999 at 15:20:27, Christophe Theron wrote:

>On July 06, 1999 at 14:57:58, James T. Walker wrote:
>
>>Hello,
>>Does anyone know if there is any advantage to using the K6-3 over the K6-2 at
>>the same Processor speed(450Mhz) for chess programs??
>>Jim Walker
>
>I don't know the details but I have facts to tell:
>
>on the AMD K6-3 at 600MHz kindly provided by Kryotech for the World
>Championship, Chess Tiger ran exactly twice as fast as on my personal K6-2
>300MHz.
>
>So I would say that for my program the only advantage of the K6-3 is that it can
>support higher clock speeds.
>
>BTW, Rebel on K6-3 600MHz is running at the speed of a P2 at 900MHz!
I was allowed to run Gromit on the Kryotech K6-III/600, too:

For Gromit it was more than twice as fast as a PII/450. I'm not sure,
but I think this is caused by the very good cache of the Kryotech-machine.

Frank
>
>
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>    Christophe



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