I just upgraded to a new system and I wanted to show the difference in speeds in case you were interested.The file used is a material render scene from http://vray-maya-materials.com Then the Kitchen Metal Silver material from the same website has been applied to it.
The scene is not RAM heavy so I believe both systems have an adequate amount of RAM for a test, neither system approached it's maximum during rendering.
Render Results:
AMD 1090T 6 core 8GB RAM
8:28 minutes
Intel i7 3930k 6 core 32GB RAM
3:37 minutes
This is over 130% faster. I haven't even tried overclocking this system yet but this looks very promising!
These speeds also correspond nicely with the benchmarks on http://www.cpubenchmark.net/high_end_cpus.html
Intel 3930k benched @ 14,565
AMD Phenom 1090T @ 6,059
UPDATED!
Gigaflops as measured by PC wizard 2010 are:
Intel 3930k benched @ 190 gigaflops
AMD Phenom 1090T @ 119 gigaflops
You can use these numbers to perhaps get an idea of what a chip upgrade might do for you.
If you are thinking of upgrading I can highly recommend it! Feel free to post your own benchmark of the same scene in the comments below.
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