Skull Trail and Cinebench

Francois Piednoel, a senior performance analyst at Intel, defines Skull Trail as the machine that will help developers know where high level games machines will be next year. Francois talks about how closely Intel is working with graphics vendors Nvidia and ATI. His Skull Trail demonstration uses Cinebench – a graphics benchmarking tool well known in the film and computer games industries – to render a scene in thirty-five seconds that would have taken five to seven minutes just two years ago.