It is pretty interesting how fast new Intel solutions will perform during rendering.

Well, everything is clear: need fast rendering - take a faster CPU. The memory bus speed hardly has any influence on its performance.

The results obtained during rendering in Lightwave 7.5 only prove the supposition made above.

We can’t say anything principally new about rendering with CINEMA4D package. By the by, just look what a failure an AMD Athlon XP 3000+ appears in 3D modeling applications. This situation became a common case after Intel had provided its CPUs with Hyper-Threading technology support. The “virtual multi-processor configurations” implemented with the help of Hyper-Threading improve the performance of the Pentium 4 processor quite a lot, as it allows using its resources in a more efficient way.

And in conclusion, let’s check the systems performance in professional applications using OpenGL.

The results of SPECviewperf 7.1 prove that i875 with dual-channel DDR400 memory and 800MHz bus is an excellent platform for professional tasks.