Author: Tom Kerrigan
Date: 16:37:28 02/23/00
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On February 23, 2000 at 14:28:11, Barry Culp wrote: >Does anyone know of any info on the relative performance of some of the better >chess programs like Crafty, Fritz, Century, Junior etc on Intel high end >machines with the new high speed and very expensive RDRAM memory. ??? > >Supposedly RDRAM memory has a faster transfer rate (bits/sec) but a slower >latency (time you wait until data starts flowing once a request is made) than >conventional SRDAM memory. I have seen some info that says SDRAM actually slows >down some applications like MS Word and Excel. > >Barry Culp Chess programs usually don't go to memory much, and when they do, it's random access. So RDRAM will not make a difference. In fact, RDRAM has longer latency than SDRAM, so if anything, it will make your chess program slightly slower. If an RDRAM system is running faster than an SDRAM system, it is for some other reason. Most likely you're comparing a Coppermine to a "regular" Pentium III. -Tom
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