Forum: Bryce


Subject: Recommendations for a graphics box?

maxx0r opened this issue on Jan 03, 2003 ยท 37 posts


Rayraz posted Sun, 05 January 2003 at 3:11 AM

Shadowdragonlord: Madmax said that 3Ghz of Mac power is about the same of 5GHz of PC power, not 3 Macs is 5 PC's, because 5 serious render-pc's would have much more than 5Ghz in total. But make note of this while thinking about madmax's point: Intel has a CISC core in it's processors and AMD has a RISC core with CISC-input. RISC is far better for numbercrunching like for rendering in bryce. Because AMD has to convert the CISC input to make it usable for it's RISC core it has little (but still some) benefit from it's RISC structure. RISC is far better then CISC when it comes to pure calculating force. MAC PC's have a RISC processors and these processors also get RISC input. That way there's no translation needed like in the AMD's and the full potential of the RISC core can be used. A MAC at 1GHz is much faster than an Intel or AMD at 1Ghz. I don't excactly know how much faster, but I think madmax isn't far of.

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