Chris Cason wrote:
> Some of you might be interested in this:
> 
>   http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,1970190,00.asp
> 
> They use POV-Ray 3.7 beta 13 in a benchmark with the upcoming Conroe CPU.

Hmm, comparing the render results of two different beta versions - 
having in mind the changes between beta 12 and 13 i would not give too 
much on the results (and especially not comparing to 3.6 of course) 
although the tendency comparing the different processors seems plausible.

What i can't understand at all is the statement: "POV-Ray has proved 
sensitive to raw clock frequencies in the past".  Given that Pentium-M 
and AMD64 tend to render faster than the P4 at much lower clock speeds 
this seems quite wrong.  What they maybe meant was that POV-Ray renders 
are very CPU intensive and issues like HD speed, graphics cards and 
memory performance have only a minor or no influence.

Christoph

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