Does Quad Core Matter?: Content Creation: 3D Modeling and Rendering

Does Quad Core Matter?: Content Creation: 3D Modeling and Rendering

Now we turn to performance using actual working applications. We’ll take a look at a pair of popular 3D modeling and rendering tools: 3ds Max 8 and LightWave 9. 3ds Max performs double duty here, as we run the SPECapc 3ds Max 8 test, which tests performance of 3ds Max by running model creation, modification, and rendering scripts. Autodesk has recently shipped 3ds Max 9, but we’re using 3ds Max 8, since the SPECapc test hasn’t been updated yet.

Content Creation—particularly 3D content creation—is where four cores rock. You see big gains in all these applications going from two to four cores.

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