"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!)

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