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AMD Phenom 9900 Processor Review - Spider Platform
| Manufacturer: | AMD |
| Product: | AMD Phenom 9900 (2.6Ghz) Processor |
| Date: | Mon, Nov 19, 2007 - 12:00 AM |
| Written By: | Nathan Kirsch - |
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POV-Ray Real-Time Raytracing
Legit Reviews was e-mailed by one of the developers over at POV-Ray to see if LR could include real-time raytracing in our performance analysis, and we were more than happy to include the data in our testing.
E-Mail From POV-Ray -- I thought I might ping you about an experimental feature we've added to the POV-Ray SMP beta: real-time raytracing. It's mostly useful to folks who have multi-core systems and in fact is something that I've wanted to do for years but the hardware just wasn't there (at least not in the consumer price range). It works best on a kentsfield or later, but a core 2 duo should be sufficient if you don't mind sub-10fps frame rates.
If you want to try it out it please feel free to grab it from: http://www.povray.org/beta/rtr/
This experimental software by POV-Ray was a welcomed addition to our testing and was able to spread the work load across all the cores in even our eight core V8 test system as seen above, but let's take a look at how the Phenom does.
Results: The AMD Phenom 9900 does better than the Intel Q6600 here as it was able to render the ray-trace at 13.20 frames per second. It's still far off from the Intel Core 2 Extreme processors, but it also is just a fraction of the price.
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Page 1 - AMD Finally Has Phenom Ready To Sell
Page 2 - Additional Spider and Phenom Features Page 3 - The Test System Page 4 - Sandra XII Memory Bandwidth Page 5 - POV-Ray 3.7 Beta 23 Page 6 - POV-Ray Real-Time Raytracing Page 7 - Cinebench R10 Page 8 - World in Conflict Page 9 - Crysis Page 10 - Power Consumption Page 11 - AMD OverDrive Page 12 - Phenom Overclocking Page 13 - Final Thoughts and Conclusions |
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