I have an i5-8250u processor. What will be the best (fastest and strongest) build?
x64 bmi, x64 popcnt, or regular x64?
which stockfish build to use
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mwyoung
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Re: which stockfish build to use
Double click on the exe file, and type bench in the window. And see what build runs fastest on your computer.....
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Re: which stockfish build to use
Open "Windows Powershell" or a command window, "cd <path to executables>" and try in turn "<name>.exe bench". If the command terminates immediately, you cannot use that build on your processor, otherwise wait until the test completes and check the line "Total time (ms): <number". Lower is better.
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Jhoravi
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Re: which stockfish build to use
Hi, I'm planing to buy a laptop with that exact CPU (i5-8250u). How many nps is Stockfish BMI2 using 4 cores in the starting position?
I'm also eyeing for the i7 variant (i7-8550u) where the notable difference is the bigger L3 cache of 8MB instead of 6MB. If that 25% L3 cache increase has no significance for Stockfish then I can save few bucks by choosing the i5.