Point of view is a rendering software which is CPU bound. Mathematical calculations are extensive to create stunning 3D objects and graphics. As most of the calculations are in the CPU, no matter how fast your GPU is, it will not help at all.

PovRay 3.7 Beta 14 has been upgraded to support multi processor support. The internal benchmark allows you to take advantage of multi processors to do rendering.

Again, we benchmark both processors and here are our findings.

The Intel QX6700 is able to generate 2677.07 pixels per sec (pps) and required 667.62 pps CPU time over a 262K pixel image.

The Intel X6800 on the other hand only rendered 1486.68 pps and required 746.78 pps CPU time over the same image.

That is a 81% jump in performance of the QX6700 against the X6800 when we enable all processors/threads to take part in the rendering process.

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