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3D Rendering Performance - 3dsmax R5

When the Athlon was first released over 3 years ago, 3D Studio MAX was a strong point of its performance. The Athlon's raw FPU performance was right up 3dsmax's ally and thus it put Intel's competing solutions (at the time, the Pentium III) to shame. Things have changed a bit, the latest version of 3ds max (R5) does have some Pentium 4 optimizations that keep things quite competitive between the Athlon XP and the Pentium 4.

For our 3ds max 5 benchmarks we chose all of the benchmark scenes that ship with the product - SinglePipe2.max, Underwater_Environment_Finished.max, 3dsmax5_rays.max, cballs2.max and vol_light2.max.

3D Rendering Performance 3DSMAX R5 - SinglePipe2.max (Render Time in Seconds - Lower is Better) Intel Pentium 4 3.06GHz HT Intel Pentium 4 2.80GHz AMD Athlon XP 2800+ (2.25GHz) AMD Athlon XP 3000+ (2.167GHz) Barton Intel Pentium 4 2.66GHz AMD Athlon XP 2700+ (2.167GHz) AMD Athlon XP 2600+ (2.083GHz) Intel Pentium 4 2.53GHz Intel Pentium 4 2.50GHz AMD Athlon XP 2400+ (2.00GHz) Intel Pentium 4 2.40GHz Intel Pentium 4 2.26GHz Intel Pentium 4 2.20GHz AMD Athlon XP 2200+ (1.80GHz) AMD Athlon XP 2100+ (1.73GHz) AMD Athlon XP 2000+ (1.67GHz) Intel Pentium 4 2.0AGHz AMD Athlon XP 1900+ (1.60GHz) AMD Athlon XP 1800+ (1.53GHz) Intel Pentium 4 2.0GHz Intel Pentium 4 1.8AGHz AMD Athlon XP 1700+ (1.47GHz) Intel Pentium 4 1.9GHz AMD Athlon XP 1600+ (1.40GHz) AMD Athlon XP 1500+ (1.33GHz) Intel Pentium 4 1.8GHz Intel Pentium 4 1.6AGHz Intel Pentium 4 1.7GHz Intel Pentium 4 1.6GHz Intel Pentium 4 1.5GHz 169 216 220 227 227 228 237 238 240 247 251 266 273 275 286 298 301 309 323 330 337 338 349 355 372 373 383 394 401 443 | 0 | 89 | 177 | 266 | 354 | 443 | 532