"Thorsten Froehlich" <tho### [at] trfde> wrote in
news:3ef7f070$1@news.povray.org: 

> In article <3ef7eaf1$1@news.povray.org> , "Ray Gardener" 
> <ray### [at] daylongraphicscom> wrote:
> 
>> I was wondering if anyone had or is planning
>> to collect MacPOV benchmarks on the new PowerMac G5.
>> Apparently the floating-point performance is exceptional.
> 
> The systems ship in August, and that doesn't mean the compilers used
> to benchmark it are available on Macs.  To be precise, to benchmark
> its Power processors (and the PowerPC 970 processor is just a stripped
> down Power4 with a SIMD extension), IBM always uses IBM C for AIX, and
> IBM VisualAge C++ Professional for AIX, benchmarking on, well AIX as
> you can for example see on the SPEC results page:
> <http://www.spec.org/cpu2000/results/res2002q4/cpu2000-20021111-01822.h
> tml> 


I have a GCC and a Xlc compile for AIX and there is hardly any difference 
at all in the POV times. If I remember correctly the skyvase scene took 
about 30 minutes on one of the machines I tried on about 2 years ago. The 
64 bit compile of 3.1 took just a bit longer (just a minute or two)

I have never really tried to run 3.5 on AIX nor have I tried to run 64 
bit code for a long time since the radiosity is broken on 64 bit 
compiles. :(

I haven't really tried to use a Power 4 or a Power 4+ machine yet, 
although we have several of them. But they are very fast indeed, 
unpacking a compressed file goes very quickly indeed.

Thomas

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