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LOSTCIRCUITS	SHORTCUTS: A new Platform Quad-FX Idiosyncrasies The Motherboard Test Config, Benchmark Overview Memory Performance The 64-bit Question Idle Power by OS Max Power Render Power (Cinebench) trueSpace POV-Ray Media Encoding 3DMark'06 F.E.A.R., DOOM3 FarCry 1.4 COD2, Prey Final Words Give Us Some Feedback on this Review
AMD's Quad FX Platform What's in a 4x4?
(Author: MS, January 21, 2007)

3D Render Power

Caligari TrueSpace 5.1

Caligari's TrueSpace is probably the most obsolete benchmark we are running here - at least with respect to its release data but it is a great tool to look at multithreading because it scales almost perfectly wtih the number of CPUs used. Also, it is one of the few tools that is only little affected by HyperThreading, meaning that the software is actually really good. We stick with Adam Trachtenberg's "Vases" at 1024 x 768 with 2xAA enabled.

Render time [sec], lower is better

Power consumption per render pass [Wsec], lower is better

Truespace was run in WinXP-32 and even if the power efficiency does not set any new records, the performance of the Quad FX platform does. And again, with a better tuned VRM the power picture may shift dramatically.

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