XEON vs. i7 again - TESTING INTERIOR SCENE

[jstrob]

New configuration
2x Xeon E5-2679 v4 (20 core/40 HT) max clock 3300 Mhz all core !!!

time 0m 19,6 s
[ATTACH=CONFIG]31014[/ATTACH]

Ouch! where did you buy those CPU from?

They are not even listed on the intel E5 v4 family page: http://ark.intel.com/products/family...v4-Family#@All

and they seem only available USED on ebay selling from Hong Kong... http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from...79+v4&_sacat=0
for 2500 USD each -which is a whopping 3000$ in CAD poor $ cad ;_(

[jstrob]

What do you think of this? (with the denoiser):

dual E5 2680 v2
18,8 s

I may have a little bit of noise in the first band of the curtain, but less noise everywhere else and also I don't have the black pixel mateusz93 had in the sky.

[jstrob]

Lowering the denoiser settings:

16,9s

[Sbrusse]

lets just use this scene and switch to BF, this will give it another lvl of render times that should be good for new gen CPUs

[jstrob]

I think it's more fun to take a scene and try to render it as fast as possible by tweaking the vray settings without changing the level of quality of the final output.

I think we need another scene with displacement, refraction, more obvious caustics, SSS and more detailed geo.

[hubmer3]

pretty happy with my new rig
the oc adds another 10% of power