TSCP

You may recall from our Opteron 150 comparison that optimization flags heavily influenced performance in the benchmark. We wanted to run this test in a similar fashion to the way we did John The Ripper with three seperate configurations for compilation. Below you can see which flags we used for each "configuration" when compiling. The march flag used for the Sempron 3100+ was "k8"; using the "athlon" flag actually degraded performance.

  • Configuration 1.) -O2
  • Configuration 2.) -O3
  • Configuration 3.) -O2 -march
  • Configuration 4.) -O3 -march
TSCP 1.8.1

You may notice we did not include the Athlon XP processor in this portion of the benchmark. There are some optimizations somewhere in the program that gave us unusual results with GCC 3.3.3; we are looking into this problem.

Crafty

Crafty v19.15 was included to keep our TSCP benchmarks sane. We used the standard "make linux" target. The benchmark was generated by running the "bench" command inside the program.

Crafty v19.15
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  • KristopherKubicki - Saturday, August 21, 2004 - link

    Aces options actually degrade performance on our test machine.

    Kristopher
  • KristopherKubicki - Saturday, August 21, 2004 - link

    I am not making these up... really.


    Xeon 3.6GHz EM64T, 1GB DDR2-400, TSCP 1.8.1
    =================================================================
    linux:~/work/tscp181 # /opt/gcc-mainline/bin/gcc -v
    Reading specs from /opt/gcc-mainline/lib64/gcc/x86_64-suse-linux/3.4.1/specs
    Configured with: ../configure --enable-threads=posix --prefix=/opt/gcc-mainline --with-local-prefix=/usr/local --infodir=/opt/gcc-mainline/share/info --mandir=/opt/gcc-mainline/share/man --libdir=/opt/gcc-mainline/lib64 --libexecdir=/opt/gcc-mainline/lib64 --enable-languages=c,c++,f77,objc,java,ada --enable-checking --enable-libgcj --with-gxx-include-dir=/opt/gcc-mainline/include/g++ --with-slibdir=/lib64 --with-system-zlib --enable-shared --enable-__cxa_atexit x86_64-suse-linux
    Thread model: posix
    gcc version 3.4.1 20040508 (prerelease) (SuSE Linux)
    =================================================================

    -O3 -funroll-loops -frerun-cse-after-loop -march=nocona
    Nodes per second: 388145 (Score: 1.596)

    -O2 -funroll-loops -frerun-cse-after-loop -march=nocona
    Nodes per second: 365722 (Score: 1.504)

    -O3 -funroll-loops -frerun-cse-after-loop
    Nodes per second: 378021 (Score: 1.555)

    -O2 -funroll-loops -frerun-cse-after-loop
    Nodes per second: 365722 (Score: 1.504)

    -O3 -march=nocona -funroll-loops -fomit-frame-pointer -ffast-math -fprofile-arcs
    Nodes per second: 311526 (Score: 1.281)

    -O2 -march=nocona -funroll-loops -fomit-frame-pointer -ffast-math -fprofile-arcs
    Nodes per second: 299173 (Score: 1.230)

    -O2 -funroll-loops -fomit-frame-pointer -ffast-math -fprofile-arcs
    Nodes per second: 279724 (Score: 1.150)

    -O3 -funroll-loops -fomit-frame-pointer -ffast-math -fprofile-arcs
    Nodes per second: 299173 (Score: 1.230)

  • Matthew Daws - Saturday, August 21, 2004 - link

    Not true. These options are on at least GCC 3.2.2, and on the P4 system I have access to (it's a university computer) I get 422K nodes/sec using the above compiler settings from Ace's.

    --Matt
  • KristopherKubicki - Saturday, August 21, 2004 - link

    Matthew Daws: Again, he is using GCC 3.4.1 which has huge optimizations and is something we havent moved over to yet.

    Kristopher
  • ThePlagiarmaster - Saturday, August 21, 2004 - link

    Oops, forgot, MS says 1st half 2005 now for Win64. So we can expect it in June...ROFL. Still the Semprons will be eaten for lunch then by next xmas by 64bit chips that are only $20 more right now. Then again, AMD could just solve the problem by turning on 64bit for Semprons :)

    Plag
  • Matthew Daws - Saturday, August 21, 2004 - link

    Kris,

    Sorry to keep harping on here. But if you look over at Ace's:

    http://www.aceshardware.com/forum?read=115094123

    You'll find the compiler options you need to get much better results (I'm getting 291K now, on a 2GHz celeron). The general opinion is that TSCP favours the P4 without some careful compiler work. The Athlon numbers, with stock compiler options, are probably OK. But the P4 numbers in the older article seem very low...

    --Matt
  • ThePlagiarmaster - Saturday, August 21, 2004 - link

    I'm having a hard time with any recommendation of the sempron over 64bit cpus that are only 10% more (we're talking like $20 here). Nobody will use more than 4gb with these. Thats a given. However, the 64bitness can't be overlooked. Look at the examples AMD has already showed (recently for example). That panorama filter they showed with 57% improvement in speed, and the other thing in the same news post showing 47% improvement. AFAIK neither of these were using more than 4GB. This is with a BETA Win64!
    http://www.amd.com/us-en/Corporate/VirtualPressRoo...

    These are only two examples of TONS that will be on the way shortly (immediately following the OS from MS that is). Intel is now backing this stuff too. Expect more 64bit ports, especially with MS finally getting off the collective ARSES and saying windows64 will be done this year (nah, I say jan/feb...but the point's still valid). This stuff is coming (encryption shows HUGE benefits, and zipping too with nowhere near 4GB), why cut yourself from the game for $20? If $20 is going to break your bank, you have no business buying a PC. Spend it on your kids diapers or shoes instead...LOL

    Plag
  • Matthew Daws - Saturday, August 21, 2004 - link

    Kris,

    I found the following in the source file main.c for TSCP 1.8.1:

    /* Score: 1.000 = my Athlon XP 2000+ */

    Checking, this means that the author gets circa 243K nodes/sec with his Athlon XP 2000+. I think, in light of this, that my numbers seem correct and yours seem way of base.

    Cheers, --Matt
  • balzi - Saturday, August 21, 2004 - link

    Helloooo.. !!!! am I using a mute account??
    is there any answer to the muddle of benchmark graphs.. please humour me by actually saying something.. Even 'I couldn't be stuffed fixing them' would be good.

    thanks
  • PrinceGaz - Friday, August 20, 2004 - link

    40-bit physical address space is 1TB, the 48-bit virtual address space allows for a range of up to 256TB. I think that should be sufficient for the lifetime of the Opteron / Athlon 64.

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