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Subject: Re: AMD Processors for Chess ?

Author: Thorsten Czub

Date: 13:52:12 07/08/99

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On July 08, 1999 at 15:06:50, KarinsDad wrote:

>If you cannot afford the big Intel chips, then the K6-3 is probably a better buy
>than a PII. Even if you cannot get your code size under 298K (I am not sure how
>much of the L1 cache is dedicated to code on the AMD, probably 32K), the extra
>200-225 Mhz on the L2 cache puts the AMD slightly faster than the same speed PII
>or PIII for chess programs (but the 500 PIII seems to outperform the 450 K6-3
>even with the faster L2 cache in almost all of the tests that I have seen, but
>you have to pay to get the slight performance improvement).
>
>KarinsDad :)

try p3/500 with cstal win95 and tell me about the results.
THEN we can discuss.
cstal is huge.
lots of code to differenciate which moves to choose.



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