Author: Alain Lyrette
Date: 17:52:36 09/12/99
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On September 12, 1999 at 01:04:43, Eugene Nalimov wrote: >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..... Nope no data but feel free to tell me where i went wrong
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