Benchmarks - RealStorm

This tool does realtime raytracing, a very computational intensive application that does software rendering. Thus, it requires high speed processors to do it. The author said "Of course 3D-Accelerators are getting faster too and evolve feature-wise, but beyond a certain level of detail, a polygon has to be smaller than a pixel on the screen. In this case, there is absolutely no reason to use polygon routines. So we decided to use platonic solids combined with boolean algebra and raytracing.

We chose this because it uses very complex mathematic algorithms which takes almost 100% of calculations are done by the main cpu.

There are 5 real time rendering scenes, RCMP, HouseV, HouseR, HouseG and White. The 3 boards with the same CPU and RAM goes through the same benchmark and we found that all three boards gets very close in scores except in the HouseR rendering scene. In fact, for all the scenes, the frame rate in real time hardly exceeds 12fps. That is how CPU intensive this thing can be.

The ECS NFORCE 570 SLIT-A performed pretty well in this test which is more CPU intensive. From the results, we can see that in HOUSER test, the ECS NFORCE 570 SLIT-A isn't as fast as the rest of the boards tested. In RCMP tests, the same issue arises. Looks like the Intel chipsets does perform better in ray tracing compared to the NV chip.

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