Author: Will Singleton
Date: 20:51:38 10/09/99
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On October 09, 1999 at 18:21:15, Peter Kappler wrote: >On October 09, 1999 at 17:54:00, Wayne Lowrance wrote: > >>With all the Hype about the new K7 Athelon superb performance claims, most of >>which seem to centered around graphics and Integer stuff I wonder how the >>equivalent Pentium 111 compares with it for chess programs, commercial as well >>as Crafty ver (what ever). Or maybe someone knows something better. I am >>addressing only Single processor applications. >> >>Has anyone have any first hand experience ? I do not think this question has >>been posted before (to my knowledge anyhow) and I think it would be interesting >>to hear from experience (or spelculation)> How about your opinion Bob, I respect >>your opinion highly. >> >>Wayne > > >Hi Wayne, > >I was just thinking the same thing this morning, so I made a trip to the local >computer store to do a little benchmarking. Note that I didn't use a well-known >program like Crafty - my goal was to see how my program (Grok) would do. > >I didn't want to hang out there for a long time, so I just ran a couple of >fixed-depth searches on two different machines. (The K6-3/450 is my home >machine). The times (in seconds) are listed below: > > > K6-3/450 P3/600 Athlon/600 >position #1 72.3 62.6 46.9 >position #2 64.0 51.1 40.3 > > >As you can see, the Athlon easily beat the P3 running at the same clock speed! >Nice job, AMD! > >--Peter Cool numbers, Peter. I just ordered an Athlon/700 for some mapping work, maybe I should get someone to port my prog to windows. Will
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