Intel P4 of AMD Athlon 64?

[smallspyda]

To all those software/hardware gurus out there, which processor performs better in studio max, Intel P4 with Hyperthreading or AMD Athlon 64?

[RErender]

At the same price point or same mghz or the fastest available?

I guess the amd64 is a slightly better value, that's what I bought for my second computer but for my workstations I go for the xeons.

[Syclone1]

are you talking about render performance or viewport performance?

-dave

[smallspyda]

hi dave, I'm talking about render performance.
thanks eric, how about AMD Athlon 64 3000+ going head to head with Intel P4 3.0 GHz HT? talking about render performance or the overall performance, which is much better?
Are the people in discreet working on a 64-bit version of studio max?

[RErender]

There is no more discreet But hopefully autodesk is working on a 64bit version. I probably wouldn't buy anything that didn't support 64 but I think it's sometime into next year(optimisticly) and the release of longhorn till there is much use for it.

In this benchmark the p4 3.2's beat out the 3200's http://www.chaoticdimension.com/foru...=10391&start=0

[smallspyda]

Thanks again eric. I need your conclusion/recommendation on this. I'm currently running on P4 2.8 HT, 1G RAM; should I uprade to AMD 64 3000 or not? or should we rather call it downgrade?

[RErender]

Hmmm, that's a tuff one. I would probably wait till you can make a bigger step in performance. Maybe another gig of ram instead?

[smallspyda]

thanks for the link...I can't run the speed test file coz I don't have VRay 1.46, I only got 1.09...any chance you can share?

[trixian]

What s it exactly you want him to share?

[smallspyda]

is there a free version of vray 1.46?

[Syclone1]

is there a free version of vray 1.46?

There is a demo version avaliable if thats what you are asking. Anything past that and you'll have to save your pennies and buy a licence of v-ray.

-dave