NPS and depth are both crap.Leo wrote:I would normally be impressed with the 64 core Epyc but I have so much about engines not scaling beyond 16 cores that I can't get excited about it. I also wonder about its time to depth.Dann Corbit wrote:The dual Epyc is not too shabby:Werewolf wrote:When you spend this much on a chess machine, might as well go the whole hog and buy a Xeon system.MikeB wrote:My best estimate - simply from extrapolating from data found on the internet is that SF would bench around ~40 M nps on i9 7980xe. Very rough - back of napkin type calc- could easily be off by more than 10% eitherway - there are no true benchmarks out there. There are benchmarks out there for i7900 - but until you see it you never know for sure.Ozymandias wrote:It should be north or 30 million, for sure, how that will compare to an unreleased CPU which base frequency remains unknown, is anyone's guess.Lion wrote:Thanks, so should we expect something in the range of 32'000 kn/s with stockfish 8 which would be very close to an i9 7980XE ?Ozymandias wrote:Why is it difficult? it's basically two Rizen 7 mashed together, and we know how that one compares to... everything:Lion wrote:It is still very difficult to know if this chip will good for chess.... and how will it compare to the i9 Chip?
http://www.hardware.fr/articles/965-2/p ... tives.html
http://www.ipmanchess.yolasite.com/amd- ... -bench.php
86,375,777 NPS
All that matters is Elo.