In article <3e2d48fe@news.povray.org> , Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg>  wrote:

>> Came across this article http://www.ct.heise.de/ct/english/02/26/018/
>> that tests AMD's 64bit CPU against Athlon XP and Pentium 4. POVRay was
>> among the other apps in the test. See table at the end for results.
>
>   I suppose that they rendered a *different* test scene with POV-Ray 3.5
> than they did with POV-Ray 3.1.
>   It would have been good if they would have written this. Someone might
> get the impression that 3.5 is a lot slower than 3.1.

Yes, they use chess2.pov for POV-Ray 3.1 and as far as I know they still use
optics.pov for POV-Ray 3.5.

    Thorsten

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