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| DFI 855GME-MGF and Intel Pentium M 735 Along came a Dothan | |
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(Review by MS, Jan 2, 2005) |
Amorphium3
Amorphium3 by Electric Image has grown to become my personal favorite 3D rendering program, it is inexpensive, intuitive and even though it may lack some of the sophistication of the real high-end programs, it suffices for any of the 3D rendering / raytracing I am interested in. In addition, Amorphium3 displays the runtime that it takes to render a given scene in milliseconds, which is extremely helpful whenever it comes to benchmarking. The scene rendered is fairly complex with a very high geometry count and semitransparent clouds (source file available upon request)
Runtime in seconds, shorter is better. Who said that the Dothan performs badly in 3D rendering? Quite the opposite is true, as soon as we move away from pre-defined objects such as tea-kettles and use complex geometry and lighting, the Pentium M actually dominates.
Lightwork Rendertest
Lightwork's rendertest is a fairly straightforward 3D rendering benchmark which usually seems to favor AMD processors.
Runtime in seconds, shorter is better.
Cinebench2003
Among the benchmarks within the Cinebench2003 suite is a raytracing 3D rendering scene that is dominated by HyperThreaded processors. There is something that is a bit strange about this since we have looked at other SMP enabled benchmarks where HyperThreading did not make a difference, that is, other than getting two separate scanlines, there was no runtime difference. Suffice it to say that we would like to take this particular benchmark with a grain of salt since theory and practice don't add up here.
The P4 dominates and the Northwood-based cores including the Galatin spin-off ExtremeEdition destroy everything, including the Prescott. Interestingly, the extra cache of the Extreme Edition does not seem to matter much either and clock for clock, the Banias is faster than the Dothan. In summary, we have some reservations about this benchmark.
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Pentium M 735 (Dothan 1.7 GHz) |
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