POV-Ray 3.7

POV-Ray is a ray tracing program available for a variety of platforms. It was originally based on DKBTrace, a program developed by David Kirk Buck and Aaron A. Collins. He was also heavily influenced by the ray tracing program Polyray with the consent of its author Alexander Enzmann. In newer versions the rendering engine has been updated to allow the calculation of the deep global illumination, caustics, and elements to create particle clouds, fire, steam. Now makes use of multithreading, then takes advantage of multicore processors on the computer, or multiple processors.

This benchmark highlights the excellent Bulldozer architecture that, when used properly, is able to express its best. You can see that in this case it can stand in front of an i7-2600K, although very marginally, but it is a good sign given the good multicore results of the architecture.

Again, all performance aligned to the Intel i7-2600K.