DFI NB73-EA i845E Review (10)
Overclocker 20 May 2002

LightWave 3D 7.0B

LightWave 3D is a 3D graphics and animation package from NewTek (www.lightwave3d.com) used to create scenes for television film and games as well as print, web authoring and other media that involve 3D solutions.  Animators using systems based on the Pentium 4 processor and its platform enjoy shorter render times for television and movie productions for a better design experience. The shorter render times seen on the Pentium 4 processor platform allow designers to render more often to see how their designs look as well as allowing for the use of more complex and highly compute intensive effects such as radiosity 1 which is not suited for older generation architectures. Intel’s Pentium 4 processor based on the NetBurst microarchitecture contains the design characteristics of enhanced floating point and rapid execution engine to fully take advantage of the benefits included in the LightWave 3D package resulting in a more efficient design process.

LightWave 3D 7b contains a selection of scenes for benchmarking purposes. The two benchmark scenes represent current designs with realistic models that utilize the powerful rendering features found in LightWave 3D 7b. These workloads are also included among NewTek’s “Most Recommended” benchmark workloads.

Scene 1 Skull_head_newest: This scene portrays a lifelike model of a skull with uneven, textured surfaces. It uses radiosity to create realistic lighting effects for a natural looking scene. 

Scene 2 Radiosity_ReflectiveThings: This workload contains smoothly curved objects that combine radiosity with reflection between metallic surfaces for a visually compelling scene.

The complex rendering effects seen in these workloads makes them prime candidates for measuring 3D rendering performance as they demonstrate the new levels of complexity that can be achieved by running the latest software on powerful systems.

* The lower the score the better

The results are not that far off from one another as this benchmarks uses more computational power. In this case, we don't see much of a dependency on than memory bandwidth or disk access which results in great differences in results. The Pentium 4 2.4G is still fast no matter which chipset it uses.

Doing a comparison with the different boards, DFI NB73-EA is pretty fast (notice the lower the score the better). The Gigabyte 8IEXP, ASUS P4B533-E and MSI 845E MAX2 are running at slightly higher FSB.

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