Lightwave 11

Website: LightWave

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

We used LightWave 11 to render a scene of animation developed by 3D Speed Machine. This is a much more demanding test than our previous frame rendering LightWave benchmark.



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.



For an explanation of what these numbers mean, head to the Performance Analysis page.