Looking to do a small update to my system. Would a 4 core Phenom vs a i7 920 make a difference in Blender and other applications?
Yes…
Actually phenom II is much better than phenom I… especially in case of 8mbn cache of phenom II… I have a plan to buy it once i have enough money!
I have a Phenom II 920 and it is twice as fast as my AMD X2 running at the same frequency in Blender / Luxrender. As far as the debate between AMD and Intel…I do beleive that the Intel chips would be faster, but there is a price premium to get there. I like supporting the little guy (and I don’t have much cash) so a Phenom II upgrade was much easier on the pocket book than the Intel.
The main thing that the i7 does that the phenom doesn’t is hyperthreading.
I have a phenomII 955 BE
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That is the most surreal thing I’ve seen on here in a while…
And I can’t believe I read a simple 2-liner from Squiggly_P, the king of long posts:eek:
I’m personally waiting for chips 4-5 times faster than my Core2Q6600 like that chip is 5 times faster than my old pentium D, it’s not worth paying a premium if you only get twice the speed or less what with GSoC probably resulting in speedups in the raytracer and viewport to help hold me over till then.:eyebrowlift: