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LOSTCIRCUITS	SHORTCUTS: Winning by Evolution Test Configurations/ Benchmarks CPU Specs Power Consumption Memory Subsystem TrueSpace POVRay 3.7 beta .21, Cinebench Media Encoding 3Dmark '06 FarCry F.E.A.R Final Thoughts Give Us Some Feedback on this Review
Intel's Core 2 Quad Extreme Edition QX6850 and Core2 E6750 Host bus: 1333 MHz
(Review by MS, July 15, 2007)

Rendering Performance

Caligari's TrueSpace has been ne of our favorite benchmarks for many years. We are currently in the process of updating the data base to version 7.5, for this review, we are still using version 5.1.

Vases

Each physical or logical processor is assigned its own render load on demand and the different render lines are leapfrogging each other until the entire scene is rendered.

The Quad Extreme 6850 sets a new record for a single processor and defeats everything out there short of an 8-core system as used in Intel's V8 platform.

Render Power

We use a very simplistic model, that is power consumption times render time to get an estimate of the total power used by any CPU to render Adam Trachtenberg's "Vases" at 1024x768 and 2xAA with Ray Tracing enabled and all candy turned on.

Also in terms of power consumption, the newcomers are very civilized and rank near the top of the field.

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