"Anthony D. Baye" <Sha### [at] spamnomorehotmailcom> wrote:
> Just installed POV on my newly reanimated Mac G5 running Debian Wheezy.
>
> Ran the benchmark and compared it against my install on my AMD Phenom II X6
> running Mint 16
>
> Mac G5 (Late 2005): Debian Wheezy -->
> Render Time:
>   Photon Time:      0 hours  0 minutes  6 seconds (6.479 seconds)
>               using 7 thread(s) with 7.400 CPU-seconds total
>   Radiosity Time:   No radiosity
>   Trace Time:       0 hours  1 minutes 49 seconds (109.803 seconds)
>               using 4 thread(s) with 408.838 CPU-seconds total
> povray: removing /tmp/pov24343.ini
> povray: removing /tmp/pov24343.pov
> POV-Ray finished
>
> AMD Phenom II X6: Mint 16 "Petra" -->
> Render Time:
>   Photon Time:      0 hours  0 minutes  2 seconds (2.248 seconds)
>               using 9 thread(s) with 2.591 CPU-seconds total
>   Radiosity Time:   No radiosity
>   Trace Time:       0 hours  3 minutes 29 seconds (209.132 seconds)
>               using 6 thread(s) with 1232.369 CPU-seconds total
> povray: removing /tmp/pov4747.ini
> povray: removing /tmp/pov4747.pov
> POV-Ray finished
>
> Note: Parse time on the newer machine was faster by almost a whole second, but
> Trace time was a bit more than twice as long.
>
> Any ideas why this might be?
>
> Regards,
> A.D.B.

What are the exact CPU specs for each computer (ie which model? how fast is it?
are you overclocking?). It looks like from the Phenom II render times that it's
no more than a 1090T? The PowerPC time looks very suspect too. Perhaps you could
render the benchmark and save the image output.

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