I wanted to see how my computer compares with others on povray. I had originally
wanted to get an itanium system for povray purposes, but after looking at the
povray score and TDP of the processor itself, I decided against it.

Thorsten Froehlich <tho### [at] trfde> wrote:
> jhu wrote:
> > I was wondering if anyone would happen to know what the scene files and
> > command-line switches are for the POV-Ray benchmark that's used in Spec
> > CPU2006?
>
> They are unfortunately using chess2.pov against our recommendations. If I
> could find the SPEC 2006 CD (which I did put somewhere, I am certain ;-) ) I
> could check what INI file they finally used, but that, too, was against our
> recommendations iirc. What we learnt was that lots of politics between large
> corporations dictate SPEC choices :-(
>
> BTW, running a single program from the SPEC 2006 benchmark is not very
> representative. So what do you really want to do? There is a benchmark scene
> built into POV-Ray as you might know...
>
>  Thorsten

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