On 09/03/2011 09:38 PM, Alain wrote:

>> Some major tech sites use povray for their CPU benchmarks. However,
>> they don't
>> necessarily use the latest builds. For example:
>> http://www.anandtech.com/bench/CPU/40
>>
>> This site is using beta 23, and their numbers seem unusually high. For
>> example,
>> an Athlon II x4 630 is reported on their site to be 2227
>> pixels/second. However,
>> when I run RC3 on my computer (same CPU), I only get 706
>> pixels/second. I just
>> want to see how accurate their numbers are.
>>
>>
> The key question is:
> Do they use the same scene as you are? With the same options?
>
>
AFAIK Most folks doing "official" benchmarking use the built-in version 
for testing ... a while back (2010/08/26 - 2010/12/20) changes #5105, 
#5129, #5255, and #5280 were efforts to synchronize the distribution 
scene file and the built-in version. Also (as some others have 
mentioned) there are more than several reasons that make comparing 
results with "older" versions like comparing apples and oranges ;-)

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