Maya And Mental Ray Benchmarks (Score 2, Informative)

Here are some benchmarks that show comparitive performance under Maya and Mental Ray. The G5 does not due so well in this, atleast compared to Intels and AMDs offerings.
An item of interest in both benchmarks are
the stats from an SGI Tezro workstation with 4 procs.

Mental Ray for Maya
http://www.zoorender.com/html/benchmark_ment al.htm

Standard Maya Renderer
http://www.zoorender.com/html/benchmark_ maya.htm

Also there are alot better reviews already published that cover these cpus respective performance in more detail.

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