Point of view is a rendering software which is CPU bound. Mathematical calculations are extensive to create stunning 3D objects and graphics. As most of the calculations are in the CPU, no matter how fast your GPU is, it will not help at all.

PovRay 3.7 Beta 14 has been upgraded to support multi processor support. The internal benchmark allows you to take advantage of multi processors to do rendering.

Again, we benchmark the boards with the QX6700 and see how many pixels can it generate per second.

The Gigabyte GA-965P-DQ6 + Intel QX6700 is able to generate 2677.07 pixels per sec (pps) and required 667.62 pps CPU time over a 262K pixel image. The ASUS Striker Extreme does 2676.22 which is as fast as the 965P. It is a bit slower than the ECS PN2 SLI2+.

Discuss in Forum

Next >>>