Author: Harald Faber
Date: 07:13:23 07/07/99
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On July 06, 1999 at 17:01:02, Alain Lyrette 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 > The only >difference between k6-2 and k6-3 is that there is 256kb of L2 cache on the die >itself of the k6-3 and that cache is running at the same speed of the cpu NOT >the speed of the bus(100 mhz).What used to be called L2 cache is now L3 cache.As >mentionned before knowledge based programs (Rebel,Hiarcs) are relying much more >on cache than fast searchers like Fritz and Nimzo.About 2 weeks ago someone >posted here something like saying that csst2 was almost twice as fast on a >pentium than on k6....which is very surprising to me.... Speaking for myself I can say that the difference between my Laptop Intel MMX166 and AMD K6-200 for ALL chess programs is 50% except for CSTal2. CSTal2 runs on the AMD 3x (!) faster than on MMX166. Because all others benefit only 50% I wouldn't call it a cache issue.
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