I saw the other posts about speeds and remembered I quick look I did a while
ago. Alpha's came out at about 2-3x pixels per megahertz compared even to a
TBird.

Alpha's smoke most other CPU's when it comes to raytracing :)

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Michael Brown

Physics is no fun if you disregard friction.
"Jamie Davison" <jam### [at] ntlworldcom> wrote in message
news:MPG.1539782b51913029898ad@news.povray.org...
> > > While we are awaiting the actual benchmark figures, I think it will be
safe
> > > to assume that its around the 3 hours mark for the standard
skyvase.pov at
> > > 640x480.
> >
> > 3 HOURS !?!  My old XT could do it in 3 hours!
>
> Yep, but IIRC the SH4 is a RISC chip, and I've never seen POV running at
> any great speed on a RISC chip (Caveat: My experience of POV on RISC
> machines is limited to Acorn Archimedes systems  which compared *Very*
> poorly, even to my old 486DX2/66, and so may not apply to the SH4)
>
> Bye for now,
>      Jamie.
>

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