🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <1992Nov20.173506.19012@hsr.no> vagle@hsr.no (James Bond)  
writes:
> Hello all you Intel fans,
> 
> I have never seen any comparings like Intel vs. Motorola.
> I talk to a lot of Mac and Amiga users, but how is the Motorola 
> processors 68000,68020,68030,68040 compared with Intel 286, 
> 386sx/dx,486dx,sx ?        Especially 486DX vs. 68040.
> 
> I would really like to see some pure facts,  BENCHmark tests, whatever.
> 
> And I guess all you Intel fans reading this can show me that Intel IS  
BEST.
Here are some results of raytracing. (RAYSHADE).
command line: (pool.ray is part of rayshade distribution)

> rayshade -R 512 512 -O out.rle pool.rle

Eye rays:                       860928
Shadow rays:                    849308
Reflected rays:                 45149
Refracted rays:                 0
Total rays:                     1755385
Intersecting rays:              1016930 (57.932%)
Shadow cache hits:              108770 (2083 misses)
Total shadow hits:              110853 (13.052%)
Supersampled pixels:            74784
B.V. intersection tests:        22632410
Plane intersection tests:       9879690 (1739083 hit, 17.602607%)
Box intersection tests: 8604836 (629806 hit, 7.319210%)
Sphere intersection tests:      69997 (22786 hit, 32.552824%)
Total prim. intersection tests: 18554523 (2391675 hit, 12.889983%)

04025   :Total CPU time (sec):           2141.4 (NeXT)
48633   :Total CPU time (sec):           2289.0 (486 CLONE)
04033   :Total CPU time (sec):           1681.1 (NeXT turbo)
48650   :Total CPU time (sec):           1574.0 (DELL)
38633+W :Total CPU time (sec):           1307.3 (386 CLONE + Weitek)
SPARC2  :Total CPU time (sec):           1161.2 (SUN SSII)
R3000   :Total CPU time (sec):            589.6 (DEC 5000 240)
SPARC10 :Total CPU time (sec):            575.6 (SUN SS10)
PA-RISC :Total CPU time (sec):            439.8 (HP 730)

enjoy.