What is the POV Benchmark all about....

[Toxin]

I was doing a search on it...

PS2 did it with a rating of 2960.. if i remember correctly
and a single Athon is about 700..

I don't understand what this benchmark does..

can someone shed some light?

 

[pm]

The only POV benchmark that I've ever heard of is "Persistance of Vision" which is a freeware ray-tracing program. The benchmark calculates the amount of time that it takes to render a certain complete scene at a certain resolution.

This may not be what you are talking about though, because:

a. that benchmark was typically in seconds (ie. 240s) - although it would be easy to convert this to a point system.
b. I can't see that it would run that much better on a PS2 - it would require a recompile and then a lot of tweaking for the PS2 architecture.

But maybe they are the same...

 

[pm]

double post... <sigh>