NVIDIA's nForce2 Performance Review

3D Rendering Performance - 3ds max 5

For our 3ds max 5 benchmarks we chose two benchmark scenes that ship with the product - SinglePipe2.max and Underwater_Environment_Finished.max

3D Rendering Performance - 3ds max 5 SinglePipe2.max - Render Time in Seconds (lower is better) NVIDIA nForce2 VIA KT333 226 226 | 0 | 45 | 90 | 136 | 181 | 226 | 271

3D Rendering Performance - 3ds max 5 Underwater_Environment_Finished.max - Render Time in Seconds (lower is better) NVIDIA nForce2 VIA KT333 301 301 | 0 | 60 | 120 | 181 | 241 | 301 | 361

We've noticed in the past that rendering in 3dsmax isn't incredibly memory bandwidth dependent and relies more on the CPU's cache with most models and scenes being rendered, thus we see no performance difference between the two chipsets.

3D Rendering Performance - Maya 4.0.1 Rendertest.ma - Render Time in Seconds (lower is better) NVIDIA nForce2 VIA KT333 70 70 | 0 | 14 | 28 | 42 | 56 | 70 | 84

The same trend holds under Maya as well.