Benchmarks
Milestones to hit on your way to making a short film, series or movie in A:M
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CPU Render Benchmark 1 2 3 4 8
by robcat2075- 3 followers
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It would be useful to find out how various CPUs do with A:M, for those who are considering new machines. This PRJ is designed to test the major render time hits like reflection, refraction, multiple ray-traced lights, shadows, anti-aliasing and combiner materials without touching on disk and RAM hogs like bitmaps or hair. Please download this PRJ ThreeTeapotsBenchmarkv005.prj select the camera view in the chor. If you are testing v16 or later, load this render preset when you render to file. benchmark.pre If you are testing v13-15 set your Options>Render Settings to "use settings from C…
Last reply by robcat2075, -
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By way of establishing a useful and effective benchmark that helps A:M Users produce a short film or movie I submit the following for consideration: Any benchmark undertaken should help to advance an A:M User toward the creation of their image, short film, series or feature. Any benchmark in the 1.0 series should be A:M-centric. (Comparing A:M to other programs is not the goal but comparing A:M to itself on various systems will reveal useful information that can be adjusted and optimized). The fewer variable in a benchmark the better. With these considerations in mind we can move toward a proposal for the first 'official' A:M benchmark. Note that this would be…
Last reply by Rodney, -
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About every year we speculate on the most powerful renderbox one could make for the money. One thing I find hard in scoping this out is that it's difficult to find up to date benchmarks of CPUs that test single core performance. That would be useful for judging Netrender usefulness since each Netrender node is a single-threaded process. At the consumer level it seems like the best AMD cores take about 50% longer to do something than the best Intel cores. Hard to find comparisons of server-lever CPUs like Xeon and Opterons that can work on multi-CPU motherboards. Anyone want to spec out a box for 2013? Lets say under $1000 for a box (or boxes)…
Last reply by robcat2075, -
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My Benchmark scene was intentionally contrived to take a long time to render with many parameters set unnecessarily high to make extra work for the CPU. It's easier to discern differences in rendering time if the time is on the scale of minutes rather than seconds. The original scene takes 17:10 on my Athlon 3200 XP: That version had reflections set to 8 possible levels. If I cut that to 2 we get a time of 15:31... That's only a slight improvement because it only speeds up pixels that would have shown a reflection of more than 2 bounces. Notice the difference in the interior of the right teapot. Those two previous scenes had …
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