To All AMD/Intel users....Conclusion...opti wins for now

[RErender]

OK, I think it is the glossy reflections in 1.46 I'll try 1.09

[reza]

Rerender...you said something about posting the bench.max file....if you could, that will be great

[RErender]

Here it is http://filepit.freewebs.com/varcht/files/bench.zip

[RErender]

OK, 14minutes 00.4seconds in 1.09.03r , seems the opti's are 10% faster and $20 bucks cheaper in this case

The glossies would need to adjusted to in 1.46 to match the speed and lesser quality of the glossies in 1.09-1.45 , but that would ruin the benchmark.

[reza]

I rendered the same setup with my other machine using Max 5.1 and the new build and got 10:36

[TRGraphics]

Those are impressive numbers for the opterons! Perhaps I need to take a closer look for my next upgrade.

Rerender, what kind of problem does the latest build have with glossy reflections? Is it just settings or is it something else?

It seems there is a major problem judging by your first render time.

Tony

[TRGraphics]

I can't download the file due to security issues. I've never had that problem before.

Reza, what was the machine specs for the max 5.1 machine?

Tony

[reza]

I should have gotten the 250's they are running at 2.2, and if microsoft release their xp64... plus max version with 64....im glued to AMD.
See you guys...it holiday time for me.

Its the same...Got 2 amd opt here.

[RErender]

I can't download the file due to security issues. I've never had that problem before.

Reza, what was the machine specs for the max 5.1 machine?

Tony

try http://www.varcht.com/files/bench.zip

Reza, What computer renderered it in 10 mins? same exact settings?

[reza]

I have 2 opteron machine....1 using max 6 and the other max 5.

i copied all the settings from the max 6 file and applied to max 5.1

The tyan motherboard is at default optimum settings....no over clocking.

[marina]

Original post of this scene (i think it must be said)

http://www.3dsymax.org/foro/viewtopic.php?t=1393

There are a lot of results with this scene in that post

Regards

[davidaleon]

I should have gotten the 250's they are running at 2.2, and if microsoft release their xp64... plus max version with 64....im glued to AMD.
See you guys...it holiday time for me.

Opteron 250 runs at 2.4Ghz Believe it or not I am a big fan of AMD. I'm happy to hear that Opteron is now competative.

I'm still unclear as to which versions of the VRay engine you gents are running. You folks seem to be all over the place.

If this is with the new beta, could the lack of differentiation in the benchmarks indicate that Vlado and company are not yet throwing the compiler optimization switches one way or the other?

According to official AMD doctrine a 1.83 GHz Opteron 244 is supposed to match well against a 3.06 GHz (533) XEON in most generic processing cases.

[reza]

Very true...i got the file from "indigooo" at his post here "Vray And Dual Opteron Systems" and im using the old 1.09 for max 6 and 1.45 for max 5.1 both on opterons
Sorry...

[marc]

Ok. Did the test as well.


On a Siemens Celsius Workstation, it took 14:23min.

-2x AMD Opteron 248 / 2.19GHz
-3.25 GB RAM

But I run the normal XP (no 64Bit) and also the normal MAX 6 version.

Btw. I didn't know, that there is a 64bit version of MAX. I thought I supports 64bit in its normal config. Is this an update?


marc

[timmatron]

My results:

Time = 14:28.9 using version 1.45.7
Dual Xeon 3.06 533fsb
Asus pc-dl
2gig ram