[Irinikus]

This video shows the performance difference that exists between Blender 2.44 and Blender 2.45, when rendering "test.blend" on an SGI Tezro.

[gijoe77]

very cool - I didn't realize there was going to be that much of a difference (that translates to a lot more of a difference on slower machines like o2's)

[Irinikus]

I haven’t run a Blender test on my Indy R4000@200MHz yet, so I might compare these two versions of Blender on this machine, to gauge how this performance difference effects the Blender results on slower machines.

[Irinikus]

I've just tested Blender 2.49, and unfortunately it's considerably slower, completing "test.blend" using 8 threads and 16x16 tiles in 1 minute 20 seconds and 87 split seconds!