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Subject: Re: Speed of cpu's?

Author: Eelco de Groot

Date: 09:39:45 02/20/00

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On February 20, 2000 at 08:29:46, leonid wrote:

>On February 19, 2000 at 23:30:25, Eelco de Groot wrote:
>
>>On February 19, 2000 at 21:58:49, Tom Kerrigan wrote:
>>
>>>On February 19, 2000 at 21:41:42, Nick Kratsias wrote:
>>>
>>>>How much faster is p3-550, than p2-400, k6-2-450, p100, k6-3-450, p3-400?
>>>>A chess program seems to be 12 times faster on a p2-400 than on a p100.  That's
>>>>because the computer is 12 times faster, right?
>>>
>>>These numbers are for my simple chess program, TSCP.
>>>
>>>Pentium/100 = 1.0
>>>
>>>Pentium III/550 = 4.74
>>>Pentium II/400 = 3.42
>>>K6-2/450 = 4.73  (K6-3 should be the same)
>>>Pentium III/400 = 3.45  (I don't think these exist?)
>>>
>>>Your mileage may vary.
>>>
>>>-Tom
>>
>>Hello Tom,
>>
>>I just posted on Rebel Board the impression I had that the K-6 III has "on die"
>>L2 cache (For people even more layman than me: small, fast piece of memory for
>>fast access by the CPU of which there are different "levels", L1, L2, L3) and
>>therefore was faster, for Rebel at least, than K-6 II. Do you think the
>>difference for TSCP to be much smaller?
>>
>>Partial results with Rebel 10 from the benchmark-page:
>>
>>Pentium II 450       0:11    0:50    1:21        2554
>>Pentium II Xeon 450  0:09    0:45    1:13        2558
>>AMD K6-2 450         0:09    0:43    1:10        2560
>>AMD K6-3 450         0:07    0:36    1:00        2566
>>
>>Regards, Eelco
>
>
>It will be nice if you will put the position that you tried on different
>computers.
>
>Thanks,
>Leonid.

Sorry, Leonid, that was a bit of a misunderstanding. These are not my results
but results posted on Rebel's benchmarkpage. In the message two places below
there is a link to the page. There are diagrams of the three test-positions
there.

Sorry if I was unclear,
Eelco



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