> Yes , if that's not enough to make you drool ( 4 > quad core CPU's ) then nothing is . Finally we > have what Amiga developers wanted for all of us > 10 years ago ... pure drop-dead power !
Well, I'm curious as to how much benefit quad-core brings when half the problems with processing lie with bandwidth and getting hold of data to process. Four cores sharing 10 GB/s or whatever the main RAM is might not perform anywhere near as well as four separate processors on four separate RAM pools. In any complex scene, the amount of data accessed per frame will run into many GB and with lots of cache thrashing, and the processors will likely spend a fair bit of their time waiting to get object data to work on. Well, the same problem applies to single core too, so I guess with four cores you could get 4x the speed! David Coombes [EMAIL PROTECTED] ...
