Intel Core 2 Extreme QX6700 (Quad Core)
by Marc Prieur
Published on November 7, 2006
3ds Max 9 and Maya 8
For 3D rendering, the first modifications were upgrades and we now use 3d Studio Max 9 and Maya v8.
Also, the two test scenes for Maya and 3dsmax developed by Yann Dupont 3DVF (whom we thank) use the MentalRay rendering engine. This choice wasn’t arbitrary since this engine is now available for both software and is most commonly used in production.
- The scene with 3dsmax is very heavy in terms of polygons and the number of objects. The objective was to test processor capacity and manipulate a heavy flow of data.
- Maya´s scene is much lighter, but uses MentalRay´s advanced lighting algorithms and employs the processors’ raw power in terms of mathematical calculations.
With 3ds and Maya, rendering times are seriously improved thanks to the QX6700 with respective performance improvements of 90 and 96% thanks to the 2 additional cores.
