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| Pentium4 3.2 GHz GHz How Much Faster | |
| (Review by MS, June23, 2003) |
Rendering Performance
Redering of photorealistic images is almost exclusively a factor of CPU performance in contrast to real-time rendering done mostly on the graphics adapter. Within Cinebench, a 2D image is rendered for high quality and the runtime is converted into a score. Cinebench is further capable of utilizing hyperthreading which speeds up performance by roughly 20%. Both scores are then given in the results chart.
Cinebench
As baseline, we have the Granite Bay-based ASUS P4G8X running the 3.06 GHz P4 (23 x 133 MHz). Increasing the bus speed alone does not add much performance here, neither does the memory frequency or the graphics card matter in this particular discipline.
Caligari TrueSpace 5.1 "Vase"
We used Adam Trachtenberg's "Vases", to increase granularity and add extra workload, we set Anti Aliasing to 4 x, which increased the runtime from roughly 90 sec to 20 minutes. During the entire time, the CPU is running under 100 % load which caused the overclocked settings to consistently crash. Hence, we don't have data to show here. Again, we have the GB-based ASUS P4G8X as baseline running at 3.06 GHz and in this case, as reference, we show the dual Athlon 2000+ MP (Iwill MPX2) as well. The runtime reduction scales almost directly with the frequency increase from 3.0 to 3.2 GHz.
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