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I don't trust that results !

i will have to test by my own, but i have i intel core 2 2.4 Ghz on XP sp1 and i do 17 s on that settings.
How should i be faster with a lower machine ?

i will test that whan i will have some time
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Indeed! May it actualy be thet the xp is doing this one one proc. becaue the setting is elsewhere. But yes the result is hard to believe since i too get a comparable reslt with away less powerful machine

I do want to point out that the mac book pro has the intel core duo's and they are faster then the pentium d's at a lower clock speed. That is why I even posted the articles from intel themselves stating the speed increase in the new processors. The only processor that is faster in intel's line up at this point is the xeons.

I do also want to point out that you out rendered my laptop on the duo which is a 2.16ghz and the other laptop which is a duo2 at 2.33ghz in windows xp showing that with the faster processor you did indeed post the fastest render-time. The difference in architecture is the reason why you out rendered my workstation. I can point you in serveral directions showing that the duo's are far faster then the pentium d's at lower clock speeds. It's pearly a better made chip.

Here is a great benchmark between the two:

http://www.bcchardware.com/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=2869&Itemid=40&limit=1&limitstart=0

This article was intended to show a comparison between rendering on OSX and WinXP, not comparing machine manufactures. The pentium d workstation is pearly there as an outside test to give a comparable 64-bit render time. If anyone has winxp 64 running on bootcamp, please run these tests and send me the results!

If you guys would like I can post screen shots with the render times for every test. Let me know!

Actually I am not supprised by the results eventhough im a pc user. Mac and its OSX is very optimized hardware and operation system compare to PC and window xp.

The momory management on Mac + OSX is far better than PC + XP, that for me is the key to have faster performance.

Im not talking of the mackbook speeds, im talking of your pc benchmark. Im doing scores that indicate theres something wrong with your windows benchmark score since i get faster speeds with machine that OUGHT to be 20% slower than yours.

IM fully aware the mackbook should be a tad faster. BUt im just questioning your pc benchmark speed is right. (yoru w32 speeds seem more accurate than your 64 bit ones, its like you have some crappy driver in place or something)

Likewise this is also what fxnurbs is saying, he does 17 minutes on amachine that should be slower then yours.

So what im saying is that maybe 32 bits is killing 64 ones here.

But see herein lies the problem, since i cant trust your windows benchmark i cant trust your mack one either.

Joojaa, I'd like to know your machine specs, as well you missed what I just wrote, fxnurbs has an intel core duo 2 at a 2.4 ghz, which is the fastest intel core duo processor to run this test, and he did indeed out bench my windows time (21 seconds) and my co-workers benchmark (19 seconds). As i've continually stated, the Pentium D processor line from intel will render slower then a DUO processor! I've taken some screen shots of both screens with the render and posted them at the end of the article. I will post one shot of the task man. up showing both cores rendering and if you look to the top left corner you will indeed see it is maya 8.5 x64. I am just going to post the first time that renders (when I did this benchmark I ran the test 5 times and used the best render). Hope this helps. On another note, if you're running an amd64 you'll also find that your render times are faster then the pentium D. The only true way to compare x64 is to find someone who has a core duo 2, (as a note, the duo 2 processors do support x64 where as the duo does not) with windows xp pro, sp2, x64 and run these tests.

Very interesting results. I'm not surprised either. It would have been interesting if you could have tested maya running on suse as well.

I have suse 9 installed, but was planning on updating to suse 10 (love the new kde /w xgl) After I get it all reinstalled, I'll be sure to run the tests on it!

lephino, could you make test on windowsXP 32bit? Not 64.
Using 64bit system can slow down results. The advantage of 64b is large memory usage only.

The tests on the macbook pros were on windows xp 32bit. The only computer running windows xp 64 bit was the workstation.

Ok , my home computer is about 3 year old machine running w32 with dual opteron 246 (1.99Ghz) with 2 gigs of ram. And it renders the scene in 24 seconds, and thats 2 seconds faster.

Now considering this one is a machine i've actually already retired its not a bad result. (3 years is how loong you need to get the money back in tax breaks too, so the computer has now cost me nothing)

ptits comment really makes me wonder about render speeds as well, I've found that so far on the x64 version of maya, the only thing that seems to be faster is large dynamic simulations. I'll have to investigate this further and I'll let you all know my results. On a side note, I have been given the opportunity to evaluate the new Business Edition of Vista. I installed the x64 version of vista and then promptly installed maya. My results are the exact same. I've heard repeated results from other people stating that vista was rendering slower on maya, but that was with the 32bit version. If anyone else has the chance to run vista and maya please let me know your results and see if they have the same outcome.

lephino, would you able to upload or someone send me the scene you are testing on? I would like to test my old machine which is Dual Xeon 2.6Ghz, 3GB Ram and a Wildcat 7110 video card. I will send you a pm with my email address. Thanks

I second k99's post, can we have the scene so we can run the same benchmark? I have a 2.5Ghz dual core Opteron and would like to see how it compares. Thanks!

I've written the admin's of highend3d to see if I can post the link to the benchmark. I'll let you guys know as soon as I hear back.