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

CPU render

  • EVGA SR-2 with 2 x X5680
  • EVGA SR-2 with 2 x X5650
  • Supermicro X8DTU-F with 2 x X5650
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    • 66
    • 47
    • 68
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Time in Seconds (lower is better)
  • Stock
  • Overclocked

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

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.

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Terragen 2

CPU render

  • EVGA SR-2 with 2 x X5680
  • Supermicro X8DTU-F with 2 x X5650
  • EVGA SR-2 with 2 x X5650
    • 6.00
    • 4.52
    • 6.55
    • 0.00
    • 7.33
    • 5.18
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Time in Minutes and Seconds (lower is better)
  • Stock
  • Overclocked

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