VRay RT cpu VS RT GPU test scene

[mitviz]

Will it be possible to have a scene setup to be able to test for everyone here and see the times they get? like a benchmark scene maybe. i would love to see how gpus stack up against cpus, it will all vary based on how many gpus or cpus you have and type but maybe will be a guide to see how much of what is needed? very new to gpu so idk for example how many and which type of gpu would be comparable to a certain type of xeon or i7 for example. some my find it useful and idk if its a good idea or bad one but just asking

[vlado]

Yep, working on it. We have a heavy-ish interior scene that we can use for tests, with textures and everything.

Best regards,
Vlado

[hsz]

Vlado I hope that we see the same scene setup for Maya as well. THanks!

[mitviz]

Yep, working on it. We have a heavy-ish interior scene that we can use for tests, with textures and everything.

Best regards,
Vlado

Well i hope its optimised to like 2 gigs of vram max so regular user can test who have two gig cards, it would be general i guess, if its two heavy a scene then will only limit the testing to 4 gig cards or higheer

[Sbrusse]

What about the regular GPU benchmark seen?
Cant we use that to benchmark the CPU?
I'd love to see the new one though

[padre.ayuso]

Well i hope its optimised to like 2 gigs of vram max so regular user can test who have two gig cards, it would be general i guess, if its two heavy a scene then will only limit the testing to 4 gig cards or higheer

I don't want to be arrogant about this, but a GTX 960 costs less than 200 dollars US. I'm guessing you are referring to people that have an old GPU from a couple of years ago and don't want to upgrade. As a note, spending $200 right now on a bit more of a graphics card is worth the investment, even if it is just for viewport performance, I can say because I did the jump twice in the last two years and the way market is going, you can get a GTX 1060 for an extra 50 dollars and have a whooping 6GB of memory. IMHO, it is worth the bucks as it will pay for itself pretty fast, even if you want to use it to light your scene and then render it in Advance right afterwards, which is what I do with about 75% of my scenes.

[mitviz]

I don't want to be arrogant about this, but a GTX 960 costs less than 200 dollars US. I'm guessing you are referring to people that have an old GPU from a couple of years ago and don't want to upgrade. As a note, spending $200 right now on a bit more of a graphics card is worth the investment, even if it is just for viewport performance, I can say because I did the jump twice in the last two years and the way market is going, you can get a GTX 1060 for an extra 50 dollars and have a whooping 6GB of memory. IMHO, it is worth the bucks as it will pay for itself pretty fast, even if you want to use it to light your scene and then render it in Advance right afterwards, which is what I do with about 75% of my scenes.

your right but for there are many people stil using vray that are just using rt for testing and have only 2 gigs of ram, even with the 970 i have anything close to 4 gigs locks up the entire pc in Rt so better its close or under 2 gigs. Those prices you posted are usa prices, in other countries cards arent that cheap, even the old ones also so just to be on the safe side

[padre.ayuso]

your right but for there are many people stil using vray that are just using rt for testing and have only 2 gigs of ram, even with the 970 i have anything close to 4 gigs locks up the entire pc in Rt so better its close or under 2 gigs. Those prices you posted are usa prices, in other countries cards arent that cheap, even the old ones also so just to be on the safe side

Yeah, I can understand that too. I think Vlado's intent is to use a heavy scene to see if we can make the scenes take less memory overall. I know for example on the nightlies they are working on some very cool stuff to make your Memory Usage lowest possible so hopefully in the near future 4GB is more than enough for most of your scenes.

[jasonhuang1115]

Yep, working on it. We have a heavy-ish interior scene that we can use for tests, with textures and everything.

Best regards,
Vlado

echo on hsz's comment. Please make a Maya version of this benchmark scene so more tests can be conducted. We have several latest GPUs at work that I can toss around to test and benchmark.

Thanks!