Last night, I went to visit the POVbench Homepage to see how my Duron
700 compares with the other chips.

Near the bottom of the single-processors chart I notice that it takes
about 30 minutes for a 486DX 50 Mhz (the one I started with) to complete
the skyvase scene.
Now it takes a mere 32 seconds to do the same. That's a 60 fold
improvement in 8 years !
-> I'll never complain again about render time again.

Now at the very top, far from the Thunderbird875  and Pentium III 933
(25 seconds for both of them), comes a PSX2 with an Emotio Engine that
computes the scene in 5 seconds at 300 Mhz and for 589 $ !!!!!!!!!!!
That beast beats some very expensive parallel computer boxes !
First, is this render time genuine ? Some figures on the chart look very
optimistic.
Second, is it the chip found on the Play station II as I think it is,
and how did the guys manage to make the processor render the scene ?
If Povray can be run on it, so can be any other software. I am highly
interested there.

Media + focal_blur + radiosity + AA + area_light + isosurface +
hair_macro at 700000 pps ! What a dream.

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