POV-Ray 3.70 beta 21:
Another new addition to our CPU benchmarking suite is POV-Ray, or Persistence of Vision Raytracer. It's a great little open source tool that can be used for creating 3D graphics art work with raytracing. Version 3.70 is the first version to include proper multi-threaded support, but it is still in beta at the moment meaning performance isn't quite as high as it will be when it comes to final release day. We used the built in benchmarking model on beta 21 for our testing purposes here.
Single Threaded:
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Core 2 Extreme QX6850 (4x3.00GHz, 1333MHz FSB, 2x4MB L2)
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Core 2 Duo E6850 (2x3.00GHz, 1333MHz FSB, 4MB L2)
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Core 2 Extreme QX6800 (4x2.93GHz, 1066MHz FSB, 2x4MB L2)
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Core 2 Extreme X6800 (2x2.93GHz, 1066MHz FSB, 4MB L2)
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Athlon 64 X2 6000+ (2x3.0GHz, 2x1MB L2)
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Core 2 Duo E6750 (2x2.66GHz, 1333MHz FSB, 4MB L2)
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Core 2 Quad Q6700 (4x2.67GHz, 1066MHz FSB, 2x4MB L2)
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Core 2 Duo E6700 (2x2.66GHz, 1066MHz FSB, 4MB L2)
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Athlon 64 X2 5600+ (2x2.8GHz, 2x1MB L2)
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Core 2 Quad Q6600 (4x2.40GHz, 1066MHz FSB, 2x4MB L2)
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Core 2 Duo E6600 (2x2.40GHz, 1066MHz FSB, 4MB L2)
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Athlon 64 X2 5200+ (2x2.6GHz, 2x1MB L2)
Score
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Core 2 Extreme QX6850 (4x3.00GHz, 1333MHz FSB, 2x4MB L2)
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Core 2 Duo E6850 (2x3.00GHz, 1333MHz FSB, 4MB L2)
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Core 2 Extreme QX6800 (4x2.93GHz, 1066MHz FSB, 2x4MB L2)
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Core 2 Extreme X6800 (2x2.93GHz, 1066MHz FSB, 4MB L2)
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Athlon 64 X2 6000+ (2x3.0GHz, 2x1MB L2)
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Core 2 Quad Q6700 (4x2.67GHz, 1066MHz FSB, 2x4MB L2)
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Core 2 Duo E6750 (2x2.66GHz, 1333MHz FSB, 4MB L2)
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Core 2 Duo E6700 (2x2.66GHz, 1066MHz FSB, 4MB L2)
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Athlon 64 X2 5600+ (2x2.8GHz, 2x1MB L2)
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Core 2 Quad Q6600 (4x2.40GHz, 1066MHz FSB, 2x4MB L2)
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Core 2 Duo E6600 (2x2.40GHz, 1066MHz FSB, 4MB L2)
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Athlon 64 X2 5200+ (2x2.6GHz, 2x1MB L2)
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Time in Seconds (lower is better)
Multi Threaded:
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Core 2 Extreme QX6850 (4x3.00GHz, 1333MHz FSB, 2x4MB L2)
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Core 2 Extreme QX6800 (4x2.93GHz, 1066MHz FSB, 2x4MB L2)
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Core 2 Quad Q6700 (4x2.67GHz, 1066MHz FSB, 2x4MB L2)
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Core 2 Quad Q6600 (4x2.40GHz, 1066MHz FSB, 2x4MB L2)
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Core 2 Duo E6850 (2x3.00GHz, 1333MHz FSB, 4MB L2)
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Core 2 Extreme X6800 (2x2.93GHz, 1066MHz FSB, 4MB L2)
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Athlon 64 X2 6000+ (2x3.0GHz, 2x1MB L2)
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Core 2 Duo E6750 (2x2.66GHz, 1333MHz FSB, 4MB L2)
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Core 2 Duo E6700 (2x2.66GHz, 1066MHz FSB, 4MB L2)
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Athlon 64 X2 5600+ (2x2.8GHz, 2x1MB L2)
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Athlon 64 X2 5200+ (2x2.6GHz, 2x1MB L2)
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Core 2 Duo E6600 (2x2.40GHz, 1066MHz FSB, 4MB L2)
Score
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Core 2 Extreme QX6850 (4x3.00GHz, 1333MHz FSB, 2x4MB L2)
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Core 2 Extreme QX6800 (4x2.93GHz, 1066MHz FSB, 2x4MB L2)
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Core 2 Quad Q6700 (4x2.67GHz, 1066MHz FSB, 2x4MB L2)
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Core 2 Quad Q6600 (4x2.40GHz, 1066MHz FSB, 2x4MB L2)
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Core 2 Duo E6850 (2x3.00GHz, 1333MHz FSB, 4MB L2)
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Core 2 Extreme X6800 (2x2.93GHz, 1066MHz FSB, 4MB L2)
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Athlon 64 X2 6000+ (2x3.0GHz, 2x1MB L2)
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Core 2 Duo E6750 (2x2.66GHz, 1333MHz FSB, 4MB L2)
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Core 2 Duo E6700 (2x2.66GHz, 1066MHz FSB, 4MB L2)
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Athlon 64 X2 5600+ (2x2.8GHz, 2x1MB L2)
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Athlon 64 X2 5200+ (2x2.6GHz, 2x1MB L2)
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Core 2 Duo E6600 (2x2.40GHz, 1066MHz FSB, 4MB L2)
Time in Seconds (lower is better)
Ray tracing is another scenario where you're going to see some quite fantastic performance scaling. Taking the Core 2 Extreme QX6850 and Core 2 Duo E6850 as an example, we saw a 99.2 percent performance increase thanks to doubling the number of cores. The benefit of going from one to four cores was 397 percent, so almost none of the available performance is wasted away.
The Athlon 64 X2 6000+ was a stronger contender than the E6750 in this particular benchmark and the X2 5600+ wasn't all that far behind the latter.
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