[Mihai]

With the licensed purchased and the one offered for free you already have enough for this octocore monster. I would be very curious to see what the speed gains are on an XP machine running Maxwell.

I mentioned a bucket rendering system won't be as efficient because the more buckets you add the more overhead to render the buckets and overlapping parts. But with Maxwell since it's rendering all at once we should see better speed improvements.

[rivoli]

why do You think there's a specific bottleneck based on the cache ?

actually the problem is not the cache, but the fsb. what works well on a dual core woodcrest, might not be enough on a four core cloverton. the large cache is there for this reason, to feed the cores when they can't access to memory fast enough.

[thomas lacroix]

sorry i was thinking more about ther 1333 bus and the way the core are connected to each others that could slow the data as mention on zdnet and other hardware forums if i remember

google a bit and you should find the same datas as me

[rivoli]

I mentioned a bucket rendering system won't be as efficient because the more buckets you add the more overhead to render the buckets and overlapping parts. But with Maxwell since it's rendering all at once we should see better speed improvements.

well, of course a bucket renderer won't scale as well as maxwell, but I don't think 8 threads are a real problem. not yet at least.
it's also true that the more the buckets, the more memory you need, but today having a good amount of ram is less a problem than it used to be, and under a 64 bit system (with 64 bit apps), memory shouldn't be a problem either.

[lllab]

well i dont know if the price will be that high as the quad cost almost the same as the dual xeon...
so actually apple could sell them to a similar good price as the 2x2 macpros(they are very fair priced)

cheers
stefan

[aitraaz]

lord i need to get the checkbook warmed up looks like this should be released soon

[deadalvs]

ah, there we have it too !

the cinebench test of these tested mac pros might also have suffered of the lazy amount of 2 gigs-a-ram...

2106 x-cpu points seems to be a joke now, after we have some news from ivox3 !

i hope these 2.66 GHz xeons come out fast !

[Carl007]

Just one question, how do you assign two licenses to maxwell?

[deadalvs]

okay, good question.

there's no way to «assign» a license. there's only the license.dat file You get from NL. if You are with contact with them about buying a license, then they will create Your individual license.dat file worth that many licenses as You have bought plus the free license they give (the plus-one license).

let's say You have 2 licenses bought, You get a license for 2+1 = 3 x 4 = 12 cores. now this is single file, You install on every of Your machines.

so You can either use this license for one computer with 12 cores (does not really exist ...) or render on a network with any combination of these 12 cores. so You could do a cooperative network render with 4 single-core machines, one quad machine and two dual-core machines.

of course: if You have no network, the license can not be checked, You actually could use as many 12-core machines as You have, just not to network-render.

theoretically, could have 500 quadcore computers and run them all with just one license !

i hope this is explained well enough ...
k?

[Boris Ulzibat]

of course: if You have no network, the license can not be checked, You actually could use as many 12-core machines as You have, just not to network-render.

Nope! The floppy-network-render rules!
flash-drive-network, to be exact

[deadalvs]

yeah of course You can do pseudo-network-rendering with .mxi files of different seeds and then manually merge them. that's what i meant ...

[michaelplogue]

let's say You have 2 licenses bought, You get a license for 2+1 = 3 x 4 = 12 cores.

Just to clarify: for those who got the plus one deal, you get one additional license for each license you purchased. So, if you bought two, you got four = 16 cores.

[deadalvs]

let's say You have 2 licenses bought, You get a license for 2+1 = 3 x 4 = 12 cores.

Just to clarify: for those who got the plus one deal, you get one additional license for each license you purchased. So, if you bought two, you got four = 16 cores.

what ? are You sure ??



ah, this makes sense...
i have four educational licenses and i wondered why it was for 16 cores.

4 x 2 cores = 8 cores plus the same for the plus one gives 16 cores...

enlightening !