Hello,
I'd like to know how fast is mental ray 3 when it runs on a Pentium4 processor. I was able to try mental ray 2.1 on a Pentium3-700 and a Pentium4-1700 and the second one was only about 60% faster, despite 145% more clock speed.
Everybody knows that the default x87 FPU of the Pentium4 is weak (and Athlon's rules), but once SSE2 is used, it can hardly be beaten. (see Lightwave7b, which is P4-optimised, here:
http://www6.tomshardware.com/cpu/02q1/0201...es/image026.gif
I'd like to know how P4 compares with P3 and Athlon when rendering with mental ray3 (XSI2).
Thanx a lot for any info.