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1 Aug 2024 10:16:59 EDT (-0400)
  Re: POV-Ray for Intel 64  
From: Kenneth
Date: 20 Nov 2005 04:45:01
Message: <web.4380445c194285b14eaece740@news.povray.org>
Thorsten Froehlich <tho### [at] trfde> wrote:
> iceqb wrote:
> > I recently (well recently) read some article somewhere comparing Intel's
> > 64-bit CPU's to AMD's, they used POV-Ray as benchmark.
>
> Interesting, do you recall where you read that?
>
>  Thorsten

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!

Ken


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