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Subject: Re: AMD Processors for Chess ?

Author: Thorsten Czub

Date: 05:07:48 07/08/99

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On July 07, 1999 at 01:05:15, Ed Schröder wrote:

>The AMD-K6-III is a breakthrough because the second level cache runs
>at full processor speed. If you have (say) a 450 Mhz K6-III the
>second level cache will run at 450 Mhz too instead of the old 100 Mhz.
>
>Now to chess programs and its effects, chess programs with small
>evaluation functions will hardly profit from this new technique.
>Chess programs with a big evaluation function will profit a lot.
>
>Rebel's speed-up is about 100%. CST speed up is 125% which is
>no surprise for me becuase CST has the largest eval of all.
>
>Ed Schroder

exactly. cstal runs better on AMD k6-2 than on any intel pentium1 due to
bigger cache.
the pentium2 is faster than the same k6-2, but not much faster.
and the k6-3 is faster than the pentium2.
in the end cstal win95 runs 2.x times faster on a k6-3 than on
a k6-2 of the same speed.

thats brilliant !!!



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