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Hi, I am looking at buying an animation program. It says on it's web site it supports multithreading.
"NEW: xxx now supports multi-threaded rendering, taking advantage of the processing power of the multi-core and multi-processor systems now available. {Render Engine} can render on up to four threads simultaneously, which can be optimized for performance on your system to yield shorter render times for specific scenes."
How can I maximize the power of multithreading? Does rendering on 4 threads mean it can/will use 4 cores at once?
If so, would I then need a quad core mac, or a 2x duo core mac to get the full advantage of the 4 threads?
If I have a dual core machine, does that mean it will only be able to render on 2 threads?
Thanks
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"NEW: xxx now supports multi-threaded rendering, taking advantage of the processing power of the multi-core and multi-processor systems now available. {Render Engine} can render on up to four threads simultaneously, which can be optimized for performance on your system to yield shorter render times for specific scenes."
How can I maximize the power of multithreading? Does rendering on 4 threads mean it can/will use 4 cores at once?
If so, would I then need a quad core mac, or a 2x duo core mac to get the full advantage of the 4 threads?
If I have a dual core machine, does that mean it will only be able to render on 2 threads?
Thanks
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