"commodorejohn" <com### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
> "jhu" <nomail@nomail> wrote:
> > Found some old benchmark of a 1.8 GHz PPC 970 here:
> > http://news.povray.org/povray.macintosh/thread/%3C3f94a116$1@news.povray.org%3E/
> Well, stunningly enough for all the trouble I had with it the first time, 3.7RC3
> compiled without a hitch now (GCC 4.4.5) and runs just fine. So, here's what I
> got for povray --benchmark on my machine (dual-CPU dual-core PPC 970MP @ 2.5GHz,
> 4GB RAM, Debian Squeeze PPC64.)
>
> Parse Time: 0 hours  0 minutes  1 seconds (1.407 seconds)
>               using 1 thread(s) with 1.403 CPU-seconds total
> Photon Time: 0 hours  0 minutes  6 seconds (6.445 seconds)
>               using 7 thread(s) with 7.395 CPU-seconds total
> Trace Time: 0 hours 12 minutes  1 seconds (721.406 seconds)
>               using 4 thread(s) with 2848.433 CPU-seconds total
> Didn't give me an official total time, but that works out to 729.258 seconds
> (~12 min 9 sec) or so. Not quite as good on a per-CPU-per-clock basis as that
> 1.8GHz G5 benchmark, but still not too bad!
>
> (Certainly gave the cooling system a workout! Thank God for the big-bladed
> lower-RPM fans in this thing, or it'dve been like a jet take-off in my computer
> room!)

Here's mine on 3.7 (Athlon II x4 630, 2.8 GHz)

Render Time:
  Photon Time:      0 hours  0 minutes  2 seconds (2.904 seconds)
              using 7 thread(s) with 3.359 CPU-seconds total
  Radiosity Time:   No radiosity
  Trace Time:       0 hours  6 minutes 11 seconds (371.209 seconds)
              using 4 thread(s) with 1465.740 CPU-seconds total

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