Author: Eugene Nalimov
Date: 22:04:43 09/11/99
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On September 12, 1999 at 00:35:02, Tom Kerrigan wrote: >Do you have any actual data, or are you going on what has been reported in >magazines? > >-Tom There was a posting in Crafty mailing list this week, with Crafty benchmark results on Athlon/500. Not very impressive (sorry, don't remember exact numbers). On the other hand, Crafty is very P6/PII/PIII friendly. Maybe for more conventinal chess program results will be better. Eugene >On September 11, 1999 at 18:07:59, Alain Lyrette wrote: > >> >>On September 11, 1999 at 04:47:18, Baldomero Garcia, Jr. wrote: >> >>>Every once in a while the topic of computer processors shows up. >>>Well, I was just looking at the "computer shopper" and they were talking about >>>the K-7 Athlon, from AMD. It looks like the 600 MHZ Athlon is faster than the >>>PIII 600 MHZ. Independent testing from a video game magazine seemed to confirm >>>that point of view. >>> >>>Has anybody had a chance to use computer programs with this processor? >>>It definitely seems interesting. >>>btw, there is also a 650 MHZ version of the Athlon too, but I'm not sure it's >>>that big a jump from the 600 MHZ. >>> >>>Baldo. >>Well as you know,the improvement seen in the Athlon over the pentium relies >>mainly in the floating point domain;since chess programming has absolutely >>nothing to do with fpu the Athlon is a bit of a let down.Sure it's about 10% >>faster than it's intel rival in integer but so was the k6-3.Of course the Athlon >>as already reach the speed of 650mhz while the k6-3 is limited at 450mhz for >>now.That would be good for a 30-40 elo improvement but not more.So the k7 is >>certainly no breakthrough for chess programming.But if you like to play 3D >>games too the thing screams.....
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