Mac G5 and C4D

[Adamt]

Cinema absolutely takes advantage of dual processors. On the Mac I think you should see a speedup around 1.8-1.9 times for a dual. I’ve seen some pretty stunning benchmarks from the new quad too. 🙂

There are many many tricks to speeding up renders, but you’ll have to be more specific about your scene(s).

[Noah Kadner]

Definitely rocks on the G5- you can see both processors working on separate parts of the image. On a quad core I’d imagine you’d see all 4. Can’t wait for that. With 3 Quad cores you’d have a twelve processor renderfarm!

Noah

[Scott Frizzle]

Ah yes, those 4 lines dicing up your image is a sight to behold on the Quad (just got mine last week.)

Cinema takes full advantage of as many processors as you have. It runs great on both the dual and quad G5’s.

[Noah Kadner]

So if you have the 3 CPU net render license with 3 quad cores- you’re good with 12 procs right?

Noah

[Scott Frizzle]

Yes, that’s right.

Of course as with any new gear, your render times will not drop, you’ll just crank up your settings and end up right where you began, although with slightly prettier renders. 😉