Forum: Bryce


Subject: Bryce-Rendering Speed Benchmarks-Mac and Win?

clyde236 opened this issue on Aug 19, 2002 ยท 28 posts


shadowdragonlord posted Mon, 19 August 2002 at 8:50 PM

Attached Link: http://calyxa.pandromeda.com/benchmark.html

It's really a pointless comparison, and has been ever since Trident stepped up to 16-bit graphics back in the late eighties. Apples are good, maybe even phenomenal for ease-of use. They are proprietary, though, and because of this will never advance as fast as the hundreds of companies building parts for modular "PCs". Heck, my graphics card by itself is faster than a G3! Not an argument, just the facts, and when I had my Imac running next to my Pentium 2, it was quite evident that it would be the last Apple I ever owned. I'm no nuclear physicist, but I can handle simple equations quite well and there's not any way in hell a G4 can keep up with a P4, or an AMD chip... The only thing that DOES run the same speed between them is possibly older RAM, pre-PC2700 or ramdac... Here's some benchmarks that Calyxa posts, not for Bryce but for Mojoworld, which hits processors in a very similar way (for the most part). You can do the math, obviously the guys at Apple cannot. (cackles)