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AMD Athlon II X4 620 and Athlon II X4 630 Processor Review

Manufacturer: AMD
Product: AMD Athlon II X4 630 and 620 CPUs
Date: Wed, Sep 16, 2009 - 12:00 AM
Written By: Nathan Kirsch -
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POV-Ray 3.7 Beta 25

Processor Performance on Pov-Ray 3.7 Beta 25:

The Persistence of Vision Ray-Tracer was developed from DKBTrace 2.12 (written by David K. Buck and Aaron A. Collins) by a bunch of people (called the POV-Team) in their spare time. It is a high-quality, totally free tool for creating stunning three-dimensional graphics. It is available in official versions for Windows, Mac OS/Mac OS X and i86 Linux. The POV-Ray package includes detailed instructions on using the ray-tracer and creating scenes. Many stunning scenes are included with POV-Ray so you can start creating images immediately when you get the package. These scenes can be modified so you do not have to start from scratch. In addition to the pre-defined scenes, a large library of pre-defined shapes and materials is provided. You can include these shapes and materials in your own scenes by just including the library file name at the top of your scene file, and by using the shape or material name in your scene. Since this is free software feel free to download this version and try it out on your own.

The most significant change from the end-user point of view between versions 3.6 and 3.7 is the addition of SMP (symmetric multiprocessing) support, which, in a nutshell, allows the renderer to run on as many CPU's as you have installed on your computer. This will be particularly useful for those users who intend on purchasing a dual-core CPU or who already have a two (or more) processor machine. On a two-CPU system the rendering speed in some scenes almost doubles. For our benchmarking we used version 3.7 beta 25, which is the most recent version available.  The benchmark used all available cores to complete the render.

Pov-Ray 3.7 Beta 25

Once rendering on the object we selected was completed, we took the score from dialog box, which indicates the average PPS for the benchmark. A higher PPS indicates faster system performance.

Pov-Ray 3.7 Beta 25

Benchmark Results: Looking at POV-Ray 3.7 Beta 25, the Intel Core i7/i5 series of processors dominate the top of the performance chart and are far ahead of the other processors. There is nearly a 20 second gap between the Intel Core series of processors and the next fastest processor by either brand. The AMD Athlon II X4 630 does well here and actually completes the benchmark in the same time as the Intel Core 2 Quad Q9400.

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Review Index
Page 1 - AMD Launches Propus For Under $100
Page 2 - The Test System
Page 3 - Overclocking the Athlon II X4 630
Page 4 - Sandra 2009 Memory Bandwidth
Page 5 - Photodex ProShow Gold 3.2
Page 6 - Microsoft Excel 2007
Page 7 - Cinebench R10
Page 8 - POV-Ray 3.7 Beta 25
Page 9 - POV-Ray Real-Time Raytracing
Page 10 - Futuremark 3DMark06
Page 11 - World in Conflict
Page 12 - Crysis Warhead
Page 13 - Power Consumption
Page 14 - Final Thoughts and Conclusions