NorthernYankee
06-26-2002, 01:28 PM
c't magazine have a battle going on at their website right now.
The site has a dual Athlon 2GHz machine playing 55 matches of chess against a dual Xeon 2.4GHz box.
And readers can watch as Sanders and Grove originated boxes sweat it out over the Internet.
Of course, chess benchmarks tend to favour CPUs with the best branch prediction units. And we believe that the Athlon MP has a better set of these than the Intel boxes.
Nevertheless, we can hope for some unexpected action because "fuzzy logic" may intervene and upset the microprocessor applecart.
You can find the action here. (http://www.heise.de/ct/schachduell/)
The site has a dual Athlon 2GHz machine playing 55 matches of chess against a dual Xeon 2.4GHz box.
And readers can watch as Sanders and Grove originated boxes sweat it out over the Internet.
Of course, chess benchmarks tend to favour CPUs with the best branch prediction units. And we believe that the Athlon MP has a better set of these than the Intel boxes.
Nevertheless, we can hope for some unexpected action because "fuzzy logic" may intervene and upset the microprocessor applecart.
You can find the action here. (http://www.heise.de/ct/schachduell/)