Benchmarking - how 'bout a new round...

[davision]

Is anyone up for a new round of benchmarking a scene with all of the x64, dual-core cpus floating around now.

I'd like to see how things are comparing.

neoVisual created a great benchmark scene that people were using with 1.46.10 -- maybe that could be the standard?

[DaForce]

Im up for it....well next week when i get my kit.

[RErender]

I will have some 830's to kick around soon too.

[percydaman]

haha funny. I was just thinking the same thing the other day when I was 3d doodling. I have a pretty intense cornell box scene I could donate. Glossies, reflections, refractions, the works.

[natty]

looks like a good test scene ..

[DaForce]

RErender:
how come not the XE 840's?

percydaman:
Nice scene, Donate away

[RErender]

RErender:
how come not the XE 840's?

$$$

the EE is only some percent faster but over 3x more expensive. If I was only building a couple of boxes I might reconsider but 20 of these should make a nice addition to the farm.

[davexl23]

Anyone got any links?

The stuff I have seen so far is that the Dual core Opterons are wasted by most software - actually slower than dual Opterons of the same clock speed because of poor software implementation.

However, Vray is amongst the very best I have seen in using multiple CPUs, so I am keen to see if Vray is an exception.

The new dual core Athlon 64 X2 looks promising... but I want to see VRAY scores!

[RErender]

I can't remember what site these are from but some good info.

[Syclone1]

hey Percy, Id like to give that scene a shot just built a new box with an AMD 4400X2, Asus A8N SLI board, 2x 74 gig WD raptors and an EVGA 7800 GTX, only 1 gig of ram so far though...

-dave

[percydaman]

okay give me a few to get it ready for consumption.

[percydaman]

okay heres the file: http://myweb.cableone.net/amylenhart/cornelltest.zip

Its a max 6 file. I would ask that you just open and render and not mess with the settings so that its the same for everyone. I purposely made the settings pretty close to default. Its also already setup to show a stamp in the vfb with vray version, cpu, memory and all that. It should take a bit to chug through so that we have a wider representation of rendertimes.

[DaForce]

Syclone1:
Nice same CPU and Video card as what im getting
hehehe its a damn fast combo!!

percydaman:
Thanks for the link.
Im gonna benchmark my current machine and then with the new one when i get it. Should be interesting.

[R2J2]

Dual Xeon benchmark

here's mine:
dual xeon, max 7, VRay 1.47.03, 1h 11m.
I changed the size of the frame stamp font, hope it doesn't affect the rendertimes much

[jujubee]

Oh god. I need a new computer now. S*!t.



Athlon XP 3200 64 bit
Win XP SP2
Max 7.5
2 Gigs PC3200