Warp nous apporta ses lumieres en ce 2008/03/11 13:06:
> Dennis Miller <dhm### [at] comcastnet> wrote:
>> Just rendered a complex scene under 3.7 beta 25 64-bit
>> under Vista Ultimate 64-bit under Boot Camp on a Mac Pro, 16 GB, 8-core 3.0 
>> machine.
>> Render Time: 6' 36"
> 
>> the same scene on Win XP SP2,  Dell 2.2 GHz, 2 GB RAM:
>> 3 hours 6 minutes!
> 
>   If my calculations are correct, that means that each core of the first
> machine is over 3.5 faster than the processor in the Dell.
> 
>   Are you certain all the settings were identical? Maybe those cores *are*
> that much faster, but...
> 
>   If everything is equal in both cases (including the resulting image),
> then rather cool.
> 
If the slower machine ran out of RAM and started using the swap, then,that would 
explain part of the difference.
A super machine with 64 cores available at 3 to 4 GHz, but only 1 GB of RAM can 
be slower than a single core at 1 GHz with 16 GB...

-- 
Alain
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Health is merely the slowest possible rate at which one can die.

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