POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : POV-Ray for Intel 64 : Re: POV-Ray for Intel 64 Server Time
1 Aug 2024 10:14:41 EDT (-0400)
  Re: POV-Ray for Intel 64  
From: Fredrik Eriksson
Date: 20 Nov 2005 05:14:56
Message: <op.s0jaq8g8cs6ysw@frogeater.bredbandsbolaget.se>
On Sun, 20 Nov 2005 10:41:00 +0100, Kenneth <kdw### [at] earthlinknet>  
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.
>
> From all I've read so far, an AMD-based machine is faster at POV  
> rendering than an Intel P4 equivalent. Good news for me!


Yet the very article you linked to shows exactly the opposite.

"The Athlon 64 falls behind even the XP while the both the P4s lead the  
pack."

The scores in the diagram are in pixels/s, not seconds.



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FE


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