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From: Nigel Patrick Lim <[e-mail]>
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Subject: Re: Render speeds for Pentium vs Pentium Pro
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Andrew Gillham wrote:
>
> Nige...
> one of the guys at Newtek told me that a Pentium Pro 200 was running 3
> times faster than a Pentium 133.  Have you found that render speeds are
> equal to Mghz gains in the normal Pentium?
> Will the P6 handle math computations better?

I guess it really depends on what scene has been rendered. If you refer to Lwpro May
issue last year you will notice that depending on which scenes were rendered the Alpha
could be 3 to 4 times faster than a Pentium 100. Some scenes the P100
outperformed the ShaBlAMM! and vice versa. Different scenes call for different sorts
of calculations and the Pentium Pro should handle computations better than a normal
Pentium otherwise why would they bother to make it. Also remember that some P100
systems outperform P133s so the CPU clock is not the only factor involved. The mother
board, cache, HD, Memory and everything else will effect rendering times to some
degree.

Hope this helps

Nige