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Subject: Re: Does anyone here at CCC have an Athlon Processor?

Author: Bertil Eklund

Date: 03:41:08 10/15/99

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On October 15, 1999 at 05:48:06, Owen Lyne wrote:

>On October 14, 1999 at 18:22:27, odell hall wrote:
>
>>Hi
>>
>>
>> I have been eagerly awaiting some computer chess benchmarks on the althon 600.
>>Although I have maybe a months ago that they were being shipped out, why is it
>>that I know of no one that has one?? Nor anyone in the Computer chess community.
>>Surely not all of us are poor?
>
>I posted benchmarks for Crafty both here and on the Crafty mailing
>list a month (about Sep 16 I think). To repeat:
>
>Benchmarks for Crafty 16.18
>---------------------------
>
>167 MHz UltraSparc (Solaris 2.6, compiled with gcc 2.8.1)
>
>Total nodes: 61096154
>Raw nodes per second: 69035
>Total elapsed time: 885
>SMP time-to-ply measurement: 0.723164
>
>250 MHz UltraSparc (Solaris 2.7, compiled with gcc 2.8.1)
>
>Total nodes: 61096154
>Raw nodes per second: 95612
>Total elapsed time: 639
>SMP time-to-ply measurement: 1.001565
>
>600 MHz Athlon (wcrafty-16.18.exe from Bob's ftp site)
>
>Total nodes: 68509284
>Raw nodes per second: 422896
>Total elapsed time: 162
>SMP time-to-ply measurement: 3.950617
>
>Notes:
>I'm very pleased with my new AMD Athlon 600MHz - that looks like a pretty
>good benchmark for Crafty to me. Totally vanilla settings, just downloaded
>the exe file and double-clicked on it, worked like a dream.
>
>I've also included bechmarks from the machines at work, this is a compile
>of my own (I hope we'll get gcc2.95 soon and speed things up), as Bob
>says, these machines don't see to perform well MHz for MHz and I know they
>were expensive.
>
>Judging by these numbers it would need a 1000MHz UltraSparc to perform as
>well as my 600MHz Athlon.
>
>I don't know why the SSDF people say Crafty doesn't like AMD - anyone got
>PIII-600 numbers to compare with?
>
>Owen
Hallo!

I have seen that Intel P2 and P3 looks clearly faster for Crafty vs AMD K6-2.
Good to see it seems to like the new Athlon.

Bertil SSDF




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