Kryotech Super G2 Athlon 1.86GHz

3D Rendering Performance

There are two very hardware demanding groups of computer users: gamers and professionals.  Gamers are usually satisfied with a high performing 3D graphics card but for most artists, engineers and scientists a lot of memory paired up with an extremely fast CPU is worth the world. 

We introduced our 3D Studio MAX R4.02 render test in our 760MP review back in June; in that review, a pair of Athlon MP 1.2GHz processors took the impressive lead with a render time of 14.4 minutes.  The test scene was pretty simple and rendered at 320 x 240; the scene was designed by AnandTech’s own Matthew Witheiler during his quest to learn the ways of 3D modeling.  For more information on the test, click here for our description of it from our 760MP Review.

Just looking at single processor performance, the 1.86GHz Super G2 setup is able to outperform a Pentium 4 overclocked to 2GHz (15 x 133MHz) by a significant amount.  Not to mention that the 1.86GHz offering puts the single processor Athlon MP to shame. 

What’s even more impressive is that the Dual Athlon MP 1.2 configuration is still outperformed by the single 1.86GHz Athlon.  At this point we can only imagine how quick a pair of 1.86GHz Athlon MPs would be…