jason1025

can you make a feature request? Not for me...I multitask while A:M is rendering. I don't care if it slows me down...I'm rendering right now as I surf the forum. I think hes referring to closing all the pallet windows in AM before rendering.

can you make a feature request?

Robert I am really happy you did this. This data has helped me out in making a decision for my small render farm. I dont think you need to change a thing. It would be great to keep this topic open so we can continue to see results. In my opinion this is a definitive official benchmark test for a system and AM. It may not be perfect but now that I have seen this data, I can run this test on any computer and some up its performance in regards to Am and other systems. I can also compare new versions of AM against old ones. I think in the years to come as technology improves and the code gets cleaner we will see this number get into 1 minute or less. To make a less intensive benchmark may not as clearly show the drastic range we have seen in results such as the difference between your results and the i7 3.3GHZ results. Bottom line Great job

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What was your conclusion based on the data below? It looks to me that AM14c is a screamer when it comes to rendering. Jason, I was surprised by the difference in these three processors: Robcat2075: 19:59 AMD Athlon XP 3200 1.921 GHz 1 core 2 GB RAM Windows 2000 ---------------------------------------- Ludo_si: 19:00 AMD ATHLON 64 X2 DUAL core processor 3800 2.01 GHZ, 2GO RAM windows xp --------------------------------------- Paul Forwood: A:M14c: 11:40 A:M15g: 15:43 A:M15h: 15:11 AMD ATHLON 64 X2 DUAL (4200+) (utilising one core) 1.79 GHz 3 GB RAM XP Pro --------------------------------------- I didn't think there would be so much difference between Ludo_si's machine and mine, in particular. That's all. Almost time to look for a new machine but I can hang on for a little longer. I still get alot of use out of my old P4. smile.gif By the way, I'm no genius.

WOW and the winner is the i7 975. That is so fast. Can you run 4 instances at the same time and six instances at the same time after that. I am curious how well it keeps that record time when rendering multiple instances. Am I correct that that is a 4 core system? How many cores come up in the task manager? does hyper threading create suit o extra cores?

another test. forgot some frames Sequence_1.mov

I am guessing the windows side will be around 9-11 minutes

Surprised in what way? The only thing that surprised me was how poorly the render works on mac, I am convinced the application of AM is running through some sort of translation instead of a truly mac coded app. Are you surprised that your computer is 2nd to last in the race, just kidding I know its not a race.

Yes I meant quicktime pro. I am using h.264 codec, but from now on I will compress them with a lower data rate. I know the down loadable file is large.

I am rendering at the moment but I have no intention of running it through every version of A:M that I have. I'll will accept that, so forget the additional variables and stick to your setup, but the version of A:M that you are using must be part of the datum. If you are unaware of the differences in versions of A:M and the impact on render speeds then I suggest that you test that first. Hey Paul I would love to see your data on the different versions of AM. I am kicking myself because I started using AM on Version 11 and would love to do an apples to apples compare against the different versions.

Report: Version 15.H render time min:sec 42:34 CPU Brand and model 2006 Intel Zeon Woodcrest 3GHZ Processor Actual CPU speed in GHz how many cores A:M is using: single core I think unless 15.H is capable of harnessing the power of multiple cores for render to file. RAM 12GB 666MHZ OS Snow Leopard OSX 10.6 mine was: V15.H 42:34 late 2006 Apple Mac Pro Tower intel Intel Zeon Woodcrest 3GHZ Processor 1 core RAM 12GB 666MHZ OS Snow Leopard OSX 10.6 .

I didnt know they made the i7 in an 8 core. I thought is was just a 4 core. Or is it? Is it the hyper threading that makes it look like 8? If you have the time and are curiouse can you test 8 instances at once and average the render times?

Did some tests using 9 instances and then again with 8 instances all at the same time on my 8 core machine. All procs were pegged/maxed out according to the task manager. Average time for 9 instances at once 11:16 Average time for 8 instances at once 10:12 (one instance for each proc) time for 1 instances 10:03 Conclusion: I think its safe to say you can run 1 instance of am per proc. Diminishing returns when I added one additional instance above the number of procs. Also I am not sure how healthy it is for your computer to run for hours on end with all procs maxed out. My system gets very hot. Recommendation keep the air conditioning on or step it down to 1 less instance then the amount of procs you have to give the system some head room. Although not exactly, It appeared that approximately one proc was in use for each instance and as projects finished up rendering the task manager dropped off consecutively. 9instances 8Instances

Report: Version 15.H render time min:sec 10:03 CPU Brand and model 2006 Intel Zeon Woodcrest 3GHZ Processor Actual CPU speed in GHz how many cores A:M is using: single core I think unless 15.H is capable of harnessing the power of multiple cores for render to file. RAM 12GB 666MHZ OS Windows Vista Ultimate 64bit mine was: V15.H 10:03 late 2006 Apple Mac Pro Tower intel Intel Zeon Woodcrest 3GHZ Processor 1 core RAM 12GB 666MHZ Windows Vista Ultimate 64bit My next test will be rendering the same project in multiple instances to see the results and at what point I get diminishing returns.

hi jason looks cool i understand splitting up the processing but can you please explain how you reassemble the pieces for the finale piece thank you j Sure Its very simple. For simple tests like this I render out quick time movies then assemble then in quick time player. You can set in and out points via the I and O keys on your keyboard. Drag and drop each quicktime into the master quicktime movie player. Then you can perform a "save as" from the file drop down menu to save a self contained single file. Sometimes I have extra duplicated frames in the movie so I make in and out points for the duplicated frames then hit delete to delete and save the file. You can use the arrow keys to go frame by frame. For Final projects not tests I like to render out TGA's files which give you one file for each frame. To string them together in a quicktime you need quicktime pro or some tipe of program that lets you import an image sequence. In quicktime there is an option to open an image sequence. You choose just the first file in the folder with all the files. A movie will open you can export that in any codec you want prferably an H.264 Codec for the net. I could have and should have exported at a lower data rate creating a much smaller file size with minimal quality loss.

15H Windows Shita 64 ultimate 16 passes AO on 15 sampling 24fps Render res 1280x720P No reflections Jpeg image sequence on screen 12 hours to render with 7 processors each render a unique segment with its own AM project open. In other words it could have taken about 6x longer if I had just rendered using one program of AM open on the same 8 core system. Cinema_Display_Motion_test.mov

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