The Dark Knight: Intel's Core i7
by Anand Lal Shimpi & Gary Key on November 3, 2008 12:00 AM EST- Posted in
- CPUs
3D Rendering Performance
Our first 3D rendering test is POV-Ray 37 beta 29 and its SMP benchmark, the performance is measured in ray traced pixels per second:
As we've already seen, Nehalem's multi-threaded 3D rendering performance is absolutely insane - the $284 Core i7-920 is faster than the $1400 Core 2 Extreme QX9770.
Next up we have Cinebench with both its single and multi-threaded rendering tests:
Nehalem's single-threaded performance is still improved over Penryn, here we're seeing a 13.7% increase in performance at 3.2GHz.
Toss more threads at the i7 and the performance boost jumps to 34%, once again the i7-920 is faster than the QX9770.
Our final 3D rendering benchmark is the SPECapc 3dsmax 8 CPU rendering test run on 3dsmax 9:
That's another 30%+ advantage for Nehalem. If you do a lot of 3D rendering on your system, Intel is going to give you $1400 worth of performance for $284. Merry Christmas.
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fzkl - Monday, November 3, 2008 - link
"Where Nehalem really succeeds however is in anything involving video encoding or 3D rendering"We have new CPU that does Video encoding and 3D Rendering really well while at the same time the GPU manufacturers are offloading these applications to the GPU.
The CPU Vs GPU debate heats up more.
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Griswold - Tuesday, November 4, 2008 - link
Wheres the product that offloads encoding to GPUs - all of them, from both makers - as a publicly available product? I havent seen that yet. Of course, we havent seen Core i7 in the wild yet either, but I bet it will be many moons before there is that single encoding suite that is ready for primetime regardless of the card that is sitting in your machine. On the other hand, I can encode my stuff right now with my current Intel or AMD products and will just move them over to the upcoming products without having to think about it.Huge difference. The debate isnt really a debate yet, if you're doing more than just talking about it.
haukionkannel - Monday, November 3, 2008 - link
Well if both CPU and GPU are better for video encoding, the better! Even now the rendering takes forever.So there is not any problem if GPU helps allready good 3d render CPU. Everything that gives more speed is just bonus!