On the weekend I managed to test the performance of the new player from Adobe. It's still in beta and because the new support for hardware acceleration they declared there are good margin for improvements in the performance but what seen so far, I've to admit, is pretty impressive. On my personal Windows notebook, with NVIDA Quadro FX 350M, 1000 animated planes with a animated 3D rotation were rendered a full speed (30fps). When they got 5000 the speed went down to 12fps, but still...!
Here a capture from a Powerbook, where the performance were slower, probably because the video card:
Flash Player 10 beta test 01 from nuthinking on Vimeo.
The demo can be visit here (requires Flash Player 10 Beta).
Interesting the new wmode options for the embed object in the html, the one I used is gpu.