AMD Opteron 6174 vs Intel Xeon X5650 Review

Written by James Gorbold

March 31, 2010 | 08:26

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LightWave 9.6

Website: LightWave 9.6

Another commonly used workstation application is Newtek LightWave, which was recently used to create CGI sequences in Iron Man and the Battlestar Galactica TV series.

We used LightWave 9.6 to render a single frame of animation from the scene developed by 3D Speed Machine.

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LightWave 9.6

  • 2 x Intel Xeon W5580
  • 2 x Intel Xeon X5650
  • 2 x AMD Opteron 2382
  • 2 x AMD Opteron 2435
  • 2 x Intel Xeon X5482
  • 2 x AMD Opteron 6174
  • 2 x Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9775
  • 66
  • 68
  • 85
  • 86
  • 89
  • 91
  • 91
0
25
50
75
100
Time in Seconds (lower is better)

Terragen 2

Website: Terragen 2

Planetside Software’s Terragen 2 is a highly realistic landscape generator used to create background images in films and games such as Star Trek: Nemesis, Stealth and The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus. Our script renders a single frame of a snowy mountain scene at 640 x 480 on all the available CPU execution units.

AMD Opteron 6174 vs Intel Xeon X5650 Review LightWave 9 and Terragen 2 AMD Opteron 6174 vs Intel Xeon X5650 Review LightWave 9 and Terragen 2

Terragen 2

  • 2 x Intel Xeon X5650
  • 2 x Intel Xeon W5580
  • 2 x Intel Xeon X5482
  • 2 x Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9775
  • 2 x AMD Opteron 2435
  • 2 x AMD Opteron 6174
  • 2 x AMD Opteron 2382
  • 6.55
  • 8.43
  • 10.01
  • 10.20
  • 10.52
  • 12.55
  • 13.23
0
3
5.5
8
10.5
13
Time in Minutes and Seconds (lower is better)

For an explanation of what these numbers mean, head to the Conclusion.
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