If you are interested in having your timetrial benchmark posted here, you must first
download the checkers_db6_builder.zip file, decompress it, and run it.
NOTE: It will write approximately 842 MB of data to your hard drive (the "endgame databases" which can be used by a checkers playing program).
It will also create a "report.txt" file which you must send it. You might want to place the program in a separate folder before beginning, otherwise it will write
many files all over your desktop, or wherever you downloaded it.
When the program has finished running, upload your benchmark data by clicking here and filling out the form.
You will have to locate your report.txt file that was saved to your hard disk in the same directory from where the program was run.
Only verifiable results will be published to this page.
NOTE: The "Ratio" column denotes the speed relative to a 3.4 GHz Gulftown, the Intel i7-980X. This is a very fast
stock architecture, and it equates to a 1.000 in this column. Larger numbers are better. The benchmarking application
runs on a single core, without parallelism, so these scores are essentially rating the speed of each individual
processing core.
| 6-Piece Checkers Database Solver Time Trials | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | Tester | CPU @ Speed | Time | Ratio | Price & Link |
| 1 | Buckeye | Intel Core i5-2500K @ 5.10 GHz | 02:57:05 | 1.535 | $4500 |
| 2 | Buckeye | Intel Core i7-980X @ 5.27 GHz | 03:01:52 | 1.495 | $7000 |
| 3 | Buckeye | Intel Core i7-2600K @ 5.00 GHz | 03:03:16 | 1.483 | $5500 |
| 4 | rickss69 | Intel Xeon W3580 @ 4.95 GHz | 03:12:40 | 1.411 | |
| 5 | rickss69 | Intel Xeon W3580 @ 4.91 GHz | 03:14:53 | 1.395 | |
| 6 | rickss69 | Intel Core i7-920 @ 4.60 GHz | 03:26:05 | 1.319 | |
| 7 | rickss69 | Intel Core 2 Duo e8600 @ 4.85 GHz | 03:30:25 | 1.292 | |
| 8 | rickss69 | Intel Core i7-920 @ 4.50 GHz | 03:31:45 | 1.284 | |
| 9 | Kriztoffer | Intel Core i7-920 @ 4.39 GHz | 03:33:44 | 1.272 | |
| 10 | rickss69 | Intel Dual-Core i5-670 @ 4.72 GHz | 03:34:47 | 1.266 | |
| 11 | Buckeye | Intel Quad-Core i7 870 @ 4.62 GHz | 03:35:59 | 1.259 | |
| 12 | Buckeye | Intel Core i7-975 Extreme @ 4.32 GHz | 03:43:18 | 1.217 | |
| 13 | Wei Yang | Intel Core i7-870 @ 4.44 GHz | 03:45:17 | 1.207 | |
| 14 | Buckeye | Intel Core i7-870 @ 4.43 GHz | 03:46:00 | 1.201 | |
| 15 | Buckeye | AMD 965BE C3 Deneb @ 5.00 GHz | 03:46:23 | 1.199 | |
| 16 | Marc Halstern | Intel Core i7-920 @ 4.00 GHz | 03:59:39 | 1.134 | |
| 17 | Justin Ashburn | Intel Core 2 Quad Q9650 @ 4.05 GHz | 04:11:02 | 1.082 | |
| 18 | Mark Cifone | Intel Core i7-860 @ 3.91 GHz | 04:13:31 | 1.072 | |
| 19 | William Harmon | AMD 1100T @ 4.00 GHz | 04:28:00 | 1.014 | $2500 |
| 20 | William Harmon | Intel Core i7-980X @ 3.40 GHz | 04:31:52 | 1.000 | (Gulftown) |
| 21 | Justin Ashburn | Intel Core 2 Quad Q9650 @ 3.00 GHz | 05:30:37 | 0.822 | |
| 22 | Marc Halstern | Intel Core i7-920 @ 2.67 GHz | 05:36:06 | 0.808 | |
| 23 | Mark Rawlings | Intel Core 2 Quad Q660 @ 2.40 GHz | 06:49:19 | 0.664 | |
| 24 | Rob Colanzi | AMD FX60 @ 2.60 GHz | 07:54:26 | 0.573 | |
| 25 | Ed Trice | AMD Opteron 150 @ 2.40 GHz | 08:57:28 | 0.505 | |
| 26 | Dan Keller | Intel Pentium IV @ 2.79 GHz | 10:03:39 | 0.450 | |
| 27 | William Harmon | Intel Pentium IV @ 2.40 GHz | 12:22:06 | 0.366 | |