"Softimage recently commisioned Jon Peddie Research to conduct a series of tests on XSI, Maya and Max. The objective of the tests was to quantify the performance advantages and disadvantages of each software package."Softimage has devoted considerable resources to optimizing their software for multi-core computing on the CPU side. As a result, they wanted to find a way to quantify and demonstrate the advantages. Jon Peddie Research was hired to certify that the tests were reasonable simulations of a users workload. We also recreated the tests in house and found that our results were similar to those obtained by Softimages engineers. We recognize that this is far from perfect, and we hope that other software vendors will participate and recreate the tests in their own products....READ MORE