Photopium opened this issue on Sep 09, 2011 · 44 posts
pjz99 posted Fri, 09 September 2011 at 9:45 PM
Quote - This rhetoric is awfully close to "In reality, Multi-core processors are totally useless at all times."
Do you actually have six cores anyway? What hardware is that exactly?
A simple test, if you have a multi core/multiprocessor machine: set threads to 1, and render something. Set threads to number of actual physical cores you have, and render the same thing again. It's not an additive increase in speed, it's less efficient the more cores you have, but I can say for certain that 4 is dramatically faster than 1 for me (I think it comes out to about 3.2 times faster).