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Originally Posted by Chris Marra
This would only be advantageous to a Maya or Cinema 4d setup where animation is involved. Each machine out of the 36 can each independently set up the entire scene, and work on a seperate frame, and then send it back to the master machine which compiles them together. So even if it takes a Mac Pro 2 seconds to do 1 frame, and one of these 20 seconds, it is still faster because in 20 seconds, you actually get 36 frames out of it, not just 10. As long as a Mac Pro is less than 18 times faster per core, these are technically faster.
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I don't know for sure but I would say a brand new 3 GHz quad core is probably way more than 10 times faster than a 400 MHz(old) single core. It only has to be 9 times faster per core(possible based on the clock speed + newer core). You also have to look at RAM bandwith and bus and a lot of other things.
Remember there is more to a lot more to a processor than just clock speed now a days.