Kenneth wrote:
> 
> Here's one, although it may not be the one iceqb refers to.
> 
> http://www.neoseeker.com/Articles/Hardware/Reviews/amd64_3400/8.html
> 
> I very recently bought an AMD 64 machine (an emachines T6412), so I'm also
> curious about this "optimization" question.

To make it short that article is really crap:

- It starts with not mentioning the POV-Ray version used.
- The description of raytracing is completely wrong.
- It does not mention what scene and render parameters are used (the 
text indicates it is the builtin benchmark but it does not really say that)
- the argumentation on optimization is really just "reading tea leaves", 
you should not try to conclude anything from this.

You can find some well executed benchmarks on:

http://pov4grasp.free.fr/articles/fastpov1/

This includes an Opteron 246 as the only 64bit machine but the results 
are quite representative for other AMD64 processors.  It also uses the 
currently available official POV-Ray version.  What's missing there of 
course are the 64bit Intel procs.

Christoph

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