debian hardinfo benchmarks

[Jupp3]

But the PA6T consumes much less power, which is relevant for people like me who are paying the electricity bills by themselves. Hmm, may be I shall create electricity consumptions benchmarks.

That sounds interesting. I wouldn't mind seeing that.

Yet another interesting calculation would be:

How long you need to keep your X1000 on for it to "pay the difference in initial cost", compared to f.ex. earlier higher end A1 models (other OS4 choices), Mac Mini (what it was ported for but not released), higher end PowerMacs (including G5) and PowerBooks (what OS4 could run on "relatively easily")

Also could throw in "same spec" X86 as that's what some people will start demanding right away :lol:

[Jupp3]

having 3D acceleration should slightly improve the render times as they definitely won't get worse

Well, if you have GUI running, then you might see few (low) percent decrease in rendering times, as it might waste some CPU time drawing the GUI (which could be used rendering).

But it's been long time since I did some benchmarks, but isn't it possible to run blender from command line without a gui, and tell it to render specific (given from command line) scene?

That way it won't use gfx card at all, so you can see if you can get few percent faster renders :lol:

Doing:
blender -b scene.blend -f 1

Will render the specified frame (1) of the given scene to /tmp/0001.png

With -t you can specify amount of threads (how many cores will be used)