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

[marc]

hehe.. probably you are right .

But I thought maybe you know a really usefull link. There are always plenty of links and 2 of ten are really good...

[percydaman]

good point, but Itll have to come from someone else. Ive only overclocked once, way back in the day, and I used to sit there and worry myself to death it was going to die...hehe decided it wasn't worth it, but that was, like I said, awhile ago.

[plastic_]

thats very interesting and all, but i don't think this scene is the right way to compare rendering speed of different systems.
i loaded the scene into my dual athlon box and i noticed that things slow down dramaticly at the rendering pass...i didn't analyse the scene but this looks like extreme raytracing-feedback.
quite a special situation, i'd say...

[Da_elf]

i thought raytracing was processor intensive which would make sence since they are testing the processors of their systems. as stated the scene doesnt take much ram and doesnt make a difference if you have alot of ram.

[timmatron]

Asus pc-dl rev 1.05 with ddram voltmod, viomod and socketmod

Vergefio, I have the PC-DL also, but still not sure where to get started as far as overclocking. Can you point me in the right direction - a website that says how to do it?

Thanks
Tim

[Robert]

Just to add this:
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My machine: Dell 670, dual 3.0Ghz XEON, UScsi, 2Gigram

Vray: 1.09

Rendertime without HT: 19m 18s
Rendertime with HT: 13m 31s

Vray: 1.45

Rendertime with HT: 14m 36s

Didn't know that HT get's so importend
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Next Machine: dual AMD 2.8, PATA, 1 GigRam

Rentertime: 17m 26s
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regards,

robert

[corey]

I'd say this "benchmark" was a wake up call this morning. We have three machines, two versions of max, and two versions of vray that we tested overnight. It's interesting to see how evolution effects things. The machines slow down as they age (which is a no brainer) but the slow down with the newer vray version came as a surprise. If I understand correctly from the following thread http://www.chaoticdimension.com/foru...viewtopic.php? the culprit for the slowdown in 1.46.02 would the QMC sampler as I guess Rerender has pointed out and witnessed. Then the image produced with 1.09.03r is darker. I may continue this tonight to see if 1.09.03r performs this much better on the older machines. We'll see.

Dual 2.0 Xeon w/2GB RAM 3ds max 7



Dual 2.0 Xeon w/4GB RAM 3ds max 7



Dual 3.06 Xeon w/2GB RAM 3ds max 7



Dual 3.06 Xeon w/2GB RAM 3ds max 6.1

[Pixelperfectg]

Dual 3.2 Xeon
2GB DDR RAM
Supermicro MB (not sure which one, it's a BOXX system)
Vray 1.45.70
Render time: 13m 32.3s

Jeff

[s.s.t.]

@ Timmatron

check this out

best regards
Andreas

[timmatron]

Awesome! Thanks Andreas.

[reza]

My friends...here is the conclusion to our little bench..

Reza-----Opteron-----12.28 64bit xp
Rerender-----Xeon 3.0---14.004
Marc-----Opteron----14.23
Timmatron----Xeon 3.0-----14.28
vergifio-----xeon 3.9+-----4.+
dynedain-----opteron-----16.77
robert-----xeon 3.0-----13.14
corey-----xeon 3.0-----14.1
Pixelperfect----xeon3.2-----13.32

Judging from the numbers above....it is clear that the new Opteron's are worth the upgrade...of all the result above no user is runing the Opteron 250 which runs at 2.4ghz. and as we can see a xeon 3.06 1mb cache matches the opteron 244 or 246.
It is just a matter of time when 64bit rules...
And not to forget our xeon friends who have achieve the fastest time by overclocking....4 minutes plus....my hats off to you vergifio.
now it is just a matter of who has the thickest wallet....

p/s....we should do this more often....happy shopping guys.

[cocolas]

damn ....at first I thought you miss wrote vergifio's results...I can't believe only 4 minutes


that's insane

[reza]

s.s.t. thanks for the info on 2cpu.com. mabye now i can fly like The Italian Stallion.

[ihavenofish]

cool, now make another scene
this one shows that both brands of processors are roughly the same on this particular type of scene.

now we need a few more types of scenes to see if this is a trend or if it will sway in one direction or the other. this scene is a bit "non practical" relative to daily work and as someone mentioned it really only tests the raycasting portion of the render process.

a few scene suggestions would be:

1. a tytpical arch viz type scene with gi
2. a scene with a lot of geometry
3. a car scene (high geometry, lots of reflections... seems a good test)
4. a character with sss skin etc

you know, just normal scenes that sress different aspects of rendering

later

[percydaman]

a scene with heavy displacement.