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AMD Athlon II X2 255 Dual Core 3.1GHz Processor Review
| Manufacturer: | AMD |
| Product: | AMD Athlon II X2 255 |
| Date: | Fri, Feb 12, 2010 - 12:00 AM |
| Written By: | Dan Stoltz - |
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POV-Ray
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 35a, which is the most recent version available. The benchmark used all available cores to complete the render.
Benchmark Results: Again, we run into an issue when running a program that will utilize multiple cores. Being limited to two cores definitely caused an increase in time to render the photo. Though when comparing the results of only running one core, the AMD Athlon II X2 255 took the least amount of time to render the image.
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Page 1 - AMD Athlon II X2 255 CPU
Page 2 - The Test System Page 3 - Sandra 2010 Memory Bandwidth Page 4 - PCMark Vantage Page 5 - 3DMark Vantage Page 6 - POV-Ray Page 7 - Photodex Proshow 4.0 Page 8 - Cinebench 10 Page 9 - World in Conflict Page 10 - Colin McRae: DiRT 2 Page 11 - Overclocking the AMD Athlon II X2 255 Page 12 - Power Consumption Page 13 - Final Thoughts and Conclusion |
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