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Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550S Processor Review
| Manufacturer: | Intel |
| Product: | BX80569Q9550 |
| Date: | Wed, Mar 11, 2009 - 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 test system as seen above.
Results: POV-Ray Real-Time Raytracing showed the Intel Q9550 took the lead over the AMD Phenom II 940, but not by much.
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Page 2 - The Test System Page 3 - Sandra 2009 Memory Bandwidth Page 4 - Photodex ProShow Gold 3.2 Page 5 - Sony Vegas 8.0c Page 6 - Microsoft Excel 2007 Page 7 - Cinebench R9.5 Page 8 - Cinebench R10 Page 9 - POV-Ray 3.7 Beta 25 Page 10 - POV-Ray Real-Time Raytracing Page 11 - Futuremark 3DMark06 Page 12 - Power Consumption Page 13 - Intel Q9550 Processor Overclocking Page 14 - Final Thoughts and Conclusions |
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