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Intel Core 2 Extreme QX6700 and Core 2 Quad Q6600 Processors: Quad-Core CPUs Gone Real! (page 8)

Category: CPU

by Ilya Gavrichenkov

[ 11/01/2006 | 10:31 PM ]

3D Rendering and Professional OpenGL

To check the performance of our testing participants in professional applications we used the latest 3ds max 9 version.

The performance during final rendering scales perfectly depending on the number of the processor cores. Kentsfield based systems may become an excellent choice for 3D designers. Rendering runs 30% faster when we switch from Core 2 Extreme X6800 to Core 2 Extreme QX6700. Unfortunately, we cannot say the same about the work in viewports. It is not the number of processor cores, but the clock speed that affects the performance here the most.

Kentsfield proved even more efficient in Cinebench that demonstrates final rendering speed in another popular suite aka Cinema 4D. Core 2 Extreme QX6700 performs 50% faster than Core 2 Extreme X6800.