AMD Phenom 9600
by Marc Prieur
Published on December 3, 2007
3ds Max 9 and Maya 8
For this test, we use two test scenes for Maya and 3dsmax developed by Yann Dupont at 3DVF (whom we thank) and using 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.
The gains in going from K8 to K10 architecture were rather variable here. With the same number of cores we obtained 14.6% better in 3ds and 6.8% gain in Maya. This is not enough for the Phenom to catch up to the Core 2 because it is at respective 90% and 87% of the Q6600’s performances in this bench.
