09-18-2006, 09:02 AM
The benefit of HT is scene dependant but in most cases you do see more performance. You are right about the pre-calc stuff being single threaded but if the pre-calc takes 5 minutes and your frame takes an hour to render then surely it is better to have the speed increase over the longest part of the render.
Sure there are instances where HT is not beneficial but with anything that takes over 15minutes and has a quick pre-calc then imo it is definetley worth using.
In an ideal world multiple cpus with multiple cores would be great but you can't just keep going out buying new machines all the time.
Sure there are instances where HT is not beneficial but with anything that takes over 15minutes and has a quick pre-calc then imo it is definetley worth using.
In an ideal world multiple cpus with multiple cores would be great but you can't just keep going out buying new machines all the time.