VIA's P4X333 - If they only had a License

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.

As we've shown countless times in the past, most 3D rendering applications require a good deal of memory bandwidth but not enough to illustrate differences between these platforms. Because of this we've stuck to only a single benchmark for the 3D rendering portion of our tests.