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#Info for PPC users

    30-Jan-95 22:07:21
Fm: Charles Koehl 71062,1556
To: Jim Jonah 73517,3532
I've got some more benchmarks for you. I rendered the first frame of the clam.cho, no show video, fixed palette, on a Pentium 90 with 32M RAM and a Number 9 video card (From now on I'm going to ignore the video card as a speed factor given the recent discussion.) Anyway, it took 28 seconds (compared to the PowerMac 8100/100 AV's time of 1:07.) I then rendered the first frame of Coca-Cola bottle animation I made for the new Coca-Cola screensavers (available on CompuServe, AOL, eWorld and UMichigan's ftp site) on both platforms. The bottle has transparency, bump mapping, a decal and about 8 lights of different types. It has 5 segments. PowerMac 8100/100 AV's time: 18:39 Pentium 90's time: 0:57. Yes. That's 57 seconds compared to over 18 minutes. Yikes.