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3D Rendering Performance - Lightwave 3D 7.5

While 3dsmax 5 is SSE2 optimized, the level of optimization is nowhere near what NewTek reported with Lightwave upon releasing version 7.0b. The performance improvements offered by the new SSE2 optimized version were all above 20% using NewTek's supplied benchmarking scenes.

We chose three benchmarks to use, two of the lesser SSE2 optimized scenes and another that is more optimized just to get an idea of the potential that lies for Pentium 4 users running heavily optimized application.

3D Rendering Performance Lightwave 3D 7.5 - raytrace (Render Time in Seconds - Lower is Better) Intel Pentium 4 3.06GHz HT Intel Pentium 4 2.80GHz Intel Pentium 4 2.66GHz Intel Pentium 4 2.53GHz Intel Pentium 4 2.50GHz Intel Pentium 4 2.40GHz AMD Athlon XP 2800+ (2.25GHz) Intel Pentium 4 2.26GHz AMD Athlon XP 3000+ (2.167GHz) Barton AMD Athlon XP 2700+ (2.167GHz) Intel Pentium 4 2.20GHz AMD Athlon XP 2600+ (2.083GHz) AMD Athlon XP 2400+ (2.00GHz) Intel Pentium 4 2.0AGHz AMD Athlon XP 2200+ (1.80GHz) Intel Pentium 4 1.8AGHz Intel Pentium 4 2.0GHz AMD Athlon XP 2100+ (1.73GHz) Intel Pentium 4 1.9GHz AMD Athlon XP 2000+ (1.67GHz) AMD Athlon XP 1900+ (1.60GHz) Intel Pentium 4 1.8GHz Intel Pentium 4 1.6AGHz AMD Athlon XP 1800+ (1.53GHz) Intel Pentium 4 1.7GHz AMD Athlon XP 1700+ (1.47GHz) Intel Pentium 4 1.6GHz AMD Athlon XP 1600+ (1.40GHz) Intel Pentium 4 1.5GHz AMD Athlon XP 1500+ (1.33GHz) 101.5 107.9 113.1 118.6 121.7 126.5 131.2 132.1 134.1 136 137.2 141.2 148 150.1 163.1 166 167.7 169.1 174.2 176.2 183.2 184.9 186 191.3 193 199.3 203.4 208.7 214.1 218.5 | 0 | 44 | 87 | 131 | 175 | 219 | 262