I think it's safe to say, I win for now.

[Lucetius]

For those who don't know me; I can't stand to wait, I have the attention span of a two year old and am all about instant gratification. (I suspect a few others here feel the same. )

Results from our newest workstation.


The original benchmark




The newer 1.5 benchmark




And no, this is not DR, OC or any other trick.


Suffice it to say, I love AMD!!

[RErender]

Not bad for a $10,000 Box?

[Lucetius]

Paolo spill the bean already.

[jujubee]

Why are the colors so different? I suspect some changes in the file...

[Lucetius]

This is a beautiful thing.

[RErender]

for that time i thought it was a fourway, seems like an octa should be faster. I wonder if it hits some threading limit? Are all cores at 100% when rendering? As it is it's only a little faster than a dual xeon.

[Lucetius]

The first test is the older benchmark that was abandoned for taking to long.

[Lucetius]

The cores are all pegged. I had to change the passes in LC to 16 for all of them to be used. (this is something that'll have to be taken in to consideration as the quad cores come out.)


At first I agreed with you as I thought it would be faster. After further testing and running some heavier projects/scenes through it, we saw that it screams as expected. Seems that if a project doesn't have enough complexity to it, it performs not much faster than a dual/dual. These are 875 opterons so compared to 275's, it's pretty much as expected.

When we first brought it on-line, we only had 4 processors installed. it was rendering our projects almost twice as fast as our duals. (ex. 40min for the 2x2, 22min for the 4x2.) I haven't performed the same tests with the 8 proc's but I expect it to be similar. I think we just need to get a more difficult benchmark.

for those who are interested:

8 x 875 opterons
8 gig ram
4 x WD raptor 150 striped.
1 x Geforce 7950 Gx2 video. (not a bad card for the price)
Win 2003 Enterprise server. 64bit.

Cost to build, approx 10k

[Da_elf]

to use a line from fast and the furious part1. "not a bad way to spend 10 thousand dollard"

[Randy]

you should try to optimize you bucket size

[ShaunDon]

Now we know what Vlado's bringing with him to next year's siggraph...

[Lucetius]

Since adding the other 4 processors, I haven't had a lot of time to test. The guys have promptly snatched it out of my hands and are throwing pre-calcs at it. When it slows down a bit, I'll run a few more tests.

[DaForce]

you just blew my mind... thats awesome

So much processing power in a box.

[Da_elf]

you could just do all your renders as PPT from here on in.

[RePlay]

I'm pretty sure this kills the Renderdrives

Can you render a PPT version of the benchmark after 10min?

Also can you render a larger view so we can see the noise levels.

And how much did you exactly spend on the box? I buy all my equipment wholesale so if it cost 10,000 it means about 8-9 thousand for me

Oh and can you also post:

Your address
The time no one is looking after your computer
Any security codes
and if you have more?

oh and if you dont mind... the address of your rich boss?