Bryce definately uses the complete processor including fpu, what it doesn't use (and probably won't for the next few releases) is hardware rendering in the gpu (graphics processor). In one of the old threads at DAZ it was stated that the render engine was using many unnecessary recursions, and these are what have been removed :)

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