I can't speak about Bryce, but Vue does beneft from such, so I'd suspect Bryce should 9at least newer versions?).

COmparing my p4 3ghz Intel art renderer PC, to my new gaming/secondary render machine (Core Duo 2,33 GHZ E6550 CPU), the new machine renders at more than twice the speed, about x2.5 as fast (it's also got a more recent motherboard etc which may help too).

Folk posting render times show substantial icnreases with quad cores to duo (though tehcnically they aren't actualy TRUE quad cores iirc?)

lol, just think, 10 years from now we could and hopefully will have, real time rendering! ;)

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