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which stockfish build to use
Posted: Thu May 16, 2019 6:34 am
by h1a8
I have an i5-8250u processor. What will be the best (fastest and strongest) build?
x64 bmi, x64 popcnt, or regular x64?
Re: which stockfish build to use
Posted: Thu May 16, 2019 6:56 am
by mwyoung
h1a8 wrote: ↑Thu May 16, 2019 6:34 am
I have an i5-8250u processor. What will be the best (fastest and strongest) build?
x64 bmi, x64 popcnt, or regular x64?
Double click on the exe file, and type bench in the window. And see what build runs fastest on your computer.....
Re: which stockfish build to use
Posted: Wed May 22, 2019 7:06 am
by BeyondCritics
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.
Re: which stockfish build to use
Posted: Thu Jul 11, 2019 3:05 pm
by Jhoravi
h1a8 wrote: ↑Thu May 16, 2019 6:34 am
I have an i5-8250u processor. What will be the best (fastest and strongest) build?
x64 bmi, x64 popcnt, or regular x64?
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.