Intel Celeron 1.7GHz - Pentium 4 Powered

3D Rendering Performance using SSE2

While 3D Studio MAX 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.

3D Rendering Performance using SSE2 Lightwave 7.5 (Raytrace Benchmark) (Image Render Time in Seconds) Intel Pentium 4 2.0GHz Intel Pentium 4 1.7GHz AMD Athlon XP 1600+ (1.40GHz) Intel Pentium III 1.2 AMD Duron 1.3GHz Intel Celeron 1.2GHz Intel Celeron 1.7 @ 2.26GHz Intel Celeron 1.7GHz 170.9 189.8 209.2 242.8 248.2 248.8 253.6 294.3 | 0 | 59 | 118 | 177 | 235 | 294 | 353

Even the SSE2 support of the new Celeron doesn't help it out under Lightwave 7.5; a larger cache is clearly necessary to help it out here.