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| AMD's AM2 Platform DDR2 ... Moving On | |
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(Review by MS May 23, 2006) |
Maxon Cinebench 2003
3dsmax, formerly known as 3D Studio Max is currently in its 8th generation and probably the most used digital content creation software out there. One of the advantages of 3dsmax 8.0 is the taking full advantage of multiple CPUs regardless of whether it is dual cores or SMP, AMD or Intel. We used two scenes, that is the "single pipe" and the "underwater environment finished" (frame #1) since they yield slightly different results.
Multithreaded 3D rendering, once a stronghold of the P4 architecture is taken by storm by the AM2 platform.
C4D shader is single-threaded and mostly influenced by raw clock speed and, to a lesser extent by memory frequency
Hardware OpenGL applications, as we have stressed in numerous earlier reviews is the one benchmark within CineBench that is most influenced by the memory subsystem and here, the AM2 platform does not look very good at all.
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