clipka <ano### [at] anonymousorg> wrote:
> wisemaj schrieb:
>
> > Sorry, newbie error.  I wasnt' aware of the Run Benchmark option under the
> > Render menu, and was simply loading and running the Benchmark file from 3.6 in
> > both cases.  Once I discovered that, and used "Run Benchmark", I got the
> > following results:
> >
> > One CPU:   671.38 PPS (662.46 PPS CPU Time) 6:30 Clock Time
> > All CPUs: 3370.80 PPS (440.70 PPS CPU Time) 1:17 Clock Time
> >
> > Now that's a beautiful thing!   Thanks.
>
> Be aware that those benchmarks cannot be compared.
>
> On a 4-core machine, a (wall clock) speedup factor like 3.0 to 3.5 is
> realistic.

clipka,

Thanks for the input.  Not sure exactly how they do this, but Intel claims a
capacity of 8 (simultaneous?) threads for the I7 processor even though it's
described as "Quad-Core".  Windows Task Monitor shows 8 CPU's and all of them
peg at 100% during the benchmark. Would that change your 3 to 3.5 speedup factor
estimate?

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