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Posted: Thu Mar 28, 2002 8:15 pm Post subject:

I need to spec boxes for a render farm, we're modeling with StudioMax and adding Discreet's Mental Ray.. What CPU will give me the best performance ray trace rendering?
(Mental Ray will run on PC & Unix)
Where can I find benchmarks?

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Where can I find benchmarks?

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Posted: Fri Mar 29, 2002 2:59 am Post subject:

Notice how the AthlonXP 2100+ outruns the Pentium4 2.4A in this test. It makes you wonder about Intel's new campaign against AMD's model numbering scheme.

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Posted: Fri Mar 29, 2002 4:46 am Post subject:

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It makes you wonder about Intel's new campaign against AMD's model numbering scheme.

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Posted: Fri Mar 29, 2002 5:58 am Post subject:

Thanks squito! There seems to be indication that the P4's are not yet running at their full potential? Is this performance just pure chip speed or does the L2 chache become a factor? Is the Athlon performing better because of the 3Dnow! (or whatever the newest version is) even though it has only a 256k L2? & I'll squeze one more question in here.. is it that the 3Dnow! data set eliminates recursive lookups back to the software?

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Big Dog Joined: 20 Oct 2000 Posts: 3689 Location: USA

the PIV cores were designed to "ramp up the MHZ' at will

if you look at them on a "clock for clock" basis, they actually underperform even the p3's

Kind of a nice little Scam Intel has going on there . . . huh Question

Stray Dog Joined: 14 Oct 2002 Posts: 23

Not to start a cpu flame war here, but I don't think it matters that "clock for clock" they underperform a P3 or Athlon. Absolute performance is all that matters.

Check out some of the hardware sites that benchmark they cpus and see which one renders the fastest with 3dsm. I believe that the highest end model P4 outperforms the highend Athlon right now. But that could change with new cpus shipping.

Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2003 4:15 pm Post subject:

bathomps wrote:
Not to start a cpu flame war here, but I don't think it matters that "clock for clock" they underperform a P3 or Athlon. Absolute performance is all that matters.

Check out some of the hardware sites that benchmark they cpus and see which one renders the fastest with 3dsm. I believe that the highest end model P4 outperforms the highend Athlon right now. But that could change with new cpus shipping.

Hrmm, a year and half later bump.

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scarecrow wrote:
Hrmm, a year and half later bump.

That should be bathomp - a year and half later bathomp - w Big Smile

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