Benchmarks - RealStorm

This tool does realtime raytracing, a very computational intensive application that does software rendering. Thus, it requires high speed processors to do it. The author said "Of course 3D-Accelerators are getting faster too and evolve feature-wise, but beyond a certain level of detail, a polygon has to be smaller than a pixel on the screen. In this case, there is absolutely no reason to use polygon routines. So we decided to use platonic solids combined with boolean algebra and raytracing.

We chose this because it uses very complex mathematic algorithms which takes almost 100% of calculations are done by the main cpu.

There are 5 real time rendering scenes, RCMP, HouseV, HouseR, HouseG and White. As the benchmark is CPU bound than graphics bound, using integrated graphics or external graphics card did not give a difference in the results. Below is a breakdown of the results of the 5 test. The results are almost halved of what we get on the Conroe desktop CPU X6800.

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