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 |