3D Rendering Performance - Lightwave 3D 7.5

While 3dsmax 5 is SSE2 optimized, the level of optimization is nowhere near what NewTek reported with Lightwave upon releasing version 7.0b. The performance improvements offered by the new SSE2 optimized version were all above 20% using NewTek's supplied benchmarking scenes.

We chose three benchmarks to use, two of the lesser SSE2 optimized scenes and another that is more optimized just to get an idea of the potential that lies for Pentium 4 users running heavily optimized application.

3D Rendering Performance
Lightwave 3D 7.5 - raytrace (Render Time in Seconds - Lower is Better)
Intel Pentium 4 3.00GHz (875P-800MHz)

Intel Pentium 4 3.06GHz (875P-533MHz)

Intel Pentium 4 3.06GHz

Intel Pentium 4 2.80GHz (875P-533MHz)

Intel Pentium 4 2.80GHz

Intel Pentium 4 2.66GHz

Intel Pentium 4 2.53GHz

Intel Pentium 4 2.50GHz

Intel Pentium 4 2.40GHz

AMD Athlon XP 2800+ (2.25GHz)

Intel Pentium 4 2.26GHz

AMD Athlon XP 3000+ (2.167GHz) Barton

AMD Athlon XP 2700+ (2.167GHz)

Intel Pentium 4 2.20GHz

AMD Athlon XP 2600+ (2.083GHz)

AMD Athlon XP 2400+ (2.00GHz)

Intel Pentium 4 2.0AGHz

AMD Athlon XP 2200+ (1.80GHz)

Intel Pentium 4 1.8AGHz

Intel Pentium 4 2.0GHz

AMD Athlon XP 2100+ (1.73GHz)

Intel Pentium 4 1.9GHz

AMD Athlon XP 2000+ (1.67GHz)

AMD Athlon XP 1900+ (1.60GHz)

Intel Pentium 4 1.8GHz

Intel Pentium 4 1.6AGHz

AMD Athlon XP 1800+ (1.53GHz)

Intel Pentium 4 1.7GHz

AMD Athlon XP 1700+ (1.47GHz)

Intel Pentium 4 1.6GHz

AMD Athlon XP 1600+ (1.40GHz)

Intel Pentium 4 1.5GHz

AMD Athlon XP 1500+ (1.33GHz)

98.6

98.8

101.5

106.2

107.9

113.1

118.6

121.7

126.5

131.2

132.1

134.1

136.0

137.2

141.2

148.0

150.1

163.1

166.0

167.7

169.1

174.2

176.2

183.2

184.9

186.0

191.3

193.0

199.3

203.4

208.7

214.1

218.5

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  • Anonymous User - Friday, September 19, 2003 - link

    Umm...right whatever, at least we can spend $2000 and get a powerful monster where as you get a let me see...133Mhz G3?! (OK, that's pushing it but you get the idea.) Besides, I might get a 3.0C Pentium-IV! BUAHAHHAH!
  • Anonymous User - Sunday, July 20, 2003 - link

    http://anandtech.com/cpu/showdoc.html?i=1810

    Umm, make that the APPLE Powermac G5, and it's not 800MHz, it's 1GHz!

    You pee cee people crack me up. Enjoy your little kids toys!
  • Thatguy97 - Wednesday, April 29, 2015 - link

    Lol how times change
  • mwdmeyer - Thursday, March 18, 2021 - link

    Lol how times change

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