CPU Speed Tests


We were curious how our SGI's stacked up against other processors in speed. We ended up using PovRay as our benchmark since it was available, or could be compiled, on many systems. The results aren't perfect since the version of PovRay we used was simply the latest version we could get at the time. Our first test was probably about 3 years ago. Now that the list is quite large I thought that others might be interested in our results.
We used fish13.pov as our test scene to render on all the systems. Here are the command line arguments that we used for every test:

flags
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+A +W720 +H486 +Ifish13.pov +O(image).tga +L(libpath)

Every time we get a new system in we try and run this test on it.. so the list should be expanding. If your interested in testing out your processor please let me know. You should include the resluts with all the approprate info to fill in the table below.
I have recently added both POV Version and Date Tested to the list. This data wasn't recorded for most of the tests but I will try and re-construct some of the dates and versions if I can. Please include this info if submitting results to the list. Best thing to do is send the stats that PovRay outputs after the render.


Processor Mhz Operating Sys Time Pixels Per Sec Pov Version Date Tested
DEC AlphaServer 4100 5/600 600 UNIX X4.0D-11 2m 43s 2151 3.02 2/98
Intel Pentium II Xeon 400 WindowsNT4 3m 34s 1638 3.1 10/98
Intel Pentium II MMX(SCSI) 350 Win95 4m 21s 1385 3.1a 11/98
Intergraph TDZ2000 Pentium II 300 WindowsNT 5m 1s 1164
Indigo2 R10000 195 IRIX6.2 5m 27s 1070
Intel Pentium II 233 Win95 6m 25s 911 3.02 5/98
PowerPC G3 266 MacOS 8 7m 23s 792
Pentium Pro 200 WinNT 4.0SP3 7m 57s 733
AMD-K6 PR2-200 200 Win95 9m 54s 590
O2 R5000 180 IRIX6.3 11m 37s 503
SunUltraSparc 1 150 ? 12m 52s 454
Indigo2 R4400 250 IRIX 13m 35s 430
Intel Pentium 150 Win95 15m 18s 381
Inigo2 R4400 200 IRIX 16m 36s 351
DEC Sable 190 Ultrix 18m 15s 319
Cyrix 6x86-p166+ 133 Win95 19m 59s 292
Cyrix 6x86-p150 120 Win95 22m 00s 266
SGI R4400 150 IRIX 23m 36s 247
DEC Alpha 150? Ultrix 24m 56s 233
Intel Pentium 75 Win95 25m 40s 227
Intel Pentium 75 MS-DOS 26m 36s 219
PowerMac604/150 150 Mac 7.5 33m 29s 174
SGI R4000 100? IRIX 35m 10s 166
SGI Indy R4600 133 IRIX 6.2 42m 7s 138
SGI PI 4D/35 36 IRIX 55m 12s 106
Indigo R3000 33? IRIX 1h 10m 33s 82
Mac PowPC7100 66 MacOS 7.5.1 1h 37m 3s 60
Intel 486DX2 66 MS-DOS 2h 58m 20s 32
Amiga 4000 25 AmigaOS 4h 37m 22s 20
Cyrix 486DX 40 Win95 5h 4m 57s 19
Cyrix 486DX 40 MS-DOS 6h ?m ?s 16
Intel 386DX 33 MS-DOS 11h 27m 53s 8
Amiga 1000 7.14 Amiga 19Days 0.08