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.

From the chart, we can see the the ECS PX1 Extreme performs well against the other boards tested. In certain tests, it loses a few points, that is probably due to the lower CPU clk. A half megahertz would mean a few 10 MHz after multiplying with the CPU Multiplier. The results are just slightly behind the ASUS P5B Deluxe.

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