AMD Opteron Coverage - Part 4: Desktop Performance

3D Rendering Performance - 3dsmax R5

For our 3ds max 5 benchmarks we chose all of the benchmark scenes that ship with the product - SinglePipe2.max, Underwater_Environment_Finished.max, 3dsmax5_rays.max, cballs2.max and vol_light2.max.

3D Rendering Performance 3DSMAX R5 - SinglePipe2.max (Render Time in Seconds - Lower is Better) Intel Pentium 4 3.0C AMD Athlon XP 3000+ (2.167GHz - Barton) AMD Opteron 244 (1.80GHz) AMD Athlon XP 2200+ (1.80GHz - Barton) AMD Athlon XP 2200+ (1.80GHz) 168 227 257 275 275 | 0 | 55 | 110 | 165 | 220 | 275 | 330

3D Rendering Performance 3DSMAX R5 - Underwater_Environment_Finished.max (Render Time in Seconds - Lower is Better) Intel Pentium 4 3.0C AMD Athlon XP 3000+ (2.167GHz - Barton) AMD Opteron 244 (1.80GHz) AMD Athlon XP 2200+ (1.80GHz - Barton) AMD Athlon XP 2200+ (1.80GHz) 243 302 339 365 365 | 0 | 73 | 146 | 219 | 292 | 365 | 438

3D Rendering Performance 3DSMAX R5 - 3dsmax5_rays.max (Render Time in Seconds - Lower is Better) Intel Pentium 4 3.0C AMD Athlon XP 3000+ (2.167GHz - Barton) AMD Opteron 244 (1.80GHz) AMD Athlon XP 2200+ (1.80GHz - Barton) AMD Athlon XP 2200+ (1.80GHz) 18 22 23 27 27 | 0 | 5 | 11 | 16 | 22 | 27 | 32

3D Rendering Performance 3DSMAX R5 - CBALLS2.max (Render Time in Seconds - Lower is Better) Intel Pentium 4 3.0C AMD Athlon XP 3000+ (2.167GHz - Barton) AMD Opteron 244 (1.80GHz) AMD Athlon XP 2200+ (1.80GHz - Barton) AMD Athlon XP 2200+ (1.80GHz) 32 44 50 53 53 | 0 | 11 | 21 | 32 | 42 | 53 | 64

3D Rendering Performance 3DSMAX R5 - vol_light2.max (Render Time in Seconds - Lower is Better) Intel Pentium 4 3.0C AMD Athlon XP 3000+ (2.167GHz - Barton) AMD Opteron 244 (1.80GHz) AMD Athlon XP 2200+ (1.80GHz - Barton) AMD Athlon XP 2200+ (1.80GHz) 15 21 26 26 26 | 0 | 5 | 10 | 16 | 21 | 26 | 31

The performance improvements the Opteron offers over the Athlon XP range from negligable to noticeable under 3dsmax.