Rendering

I could say the same thing about 3D modeling tasks; however, the CPU performance tests performed in 3ds max 2009 cause a little confusion here. Intel processors have always demonstrated high rendering performance in this application due to their microarchitectural peculiarities. As we can clearly see now, the additional core of the new Phenom II X3 720 processors cannot really make up for this. Although Phenom II X3 720 can process up to three computational threads at a time, it is only a tiny bit ahead of Core 2 Duo E840.