[Bf-funboard] Physical Memory and Cycles

[Brecht Van Lommel]

On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 5:31 PM, Ryan Duncan <lun3rcry at gmail.com> wrote:
> My computer has an i7 Q720 chip at 1.60GHZ and is a notebook made
> especially for gaming and CPU intensive processes, so how can cycles still
> be so slow when rendering glass, I had a far inferior Acer in 2008 which
> could render faster using the old 3DSmax6 with MentalRay.  Cycles is
> supposed to be fast.

Not sure where you read Cycles is supposed to be as fast as mental
ray, we still have to work on improving performance more. I guess
mainly the GPU rendering might be considered fast. But it's also a
matter of tweaking settings to get comparable rendering effects and
materials.

The Q 720 is also on the low end of performance:
http://www.cpubenchmark.net/high_end_cpus.html

Brecht.