[Matthew Schrock]

The performance in Mac will improve in the next days, we are doing some fine-tuning for G5.

Thanks Victor.....


Matthew

[noseman]

thank you for the comment Victor!

[DavidR]

In most rendering tasks, Opteron 250 is roughly equivalent to Xeon 3.6. Xeons seem to be preferred for Maxwell because hyperthreading gives a boost, but if you're mostly using VRay, Brazil, or mental ray, eg, Opterons may be better, depending on what you render (high-res stills, anim with motion blur, etc). Note that dual-core from Intel will not have Hyperthreading, and that Opteron dual-cores will be pin-compatible with current up-to-date motherboards, needing only a BIOS update to work. Revision 'E' Opterons have SSE3, also, which helps in some apps, like Max.

[andronikos916]

I tested with my Dula Xeon Oc @ 3.34Ghz the skydome scene with Maxwell 1.10 a while ago and took me 27min.

anyway... here is the link for those intrested.

cy,
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http://www.maxwellrender.com/forum/view ... mark+scene

[tom]

EXACTLY. It would be great if someone could benchmark it. It only takes a few minutes.

maybe you have to review benchmarking legends like andron

[andronikos916]

did you try with -th:16 ?

[Matthew Schrock]

And it looked like you had HT turned on in that screen capture.

hrothgar

I've noticed that Maxwell claims HT is enabled whether it actually is or not.


Matthew

[hdesbois]

I've noticed that Maxwell claims HT is enabled whether it actually is or not.

Quite so, even on machines that are not HT capable (old PIV).

HD

[tom]

why 1.1.32?

[DavidR]

Thank you

I find it a little depressing to see that the rendering time of a Pentium 4 2,6 Ghz is similiar to the rendering time of an Athlon64 3200+ (because i had planed to buy an Athlon64 3000+ System).

If you get an AMD, make sure it's the E stepping or higher; it has SSE3, so should work better with apps that take advantage of it, like Max. The E stpping is pretty new, so you might have to wait unless you can afford the latest and greatest AMD, which is really expensive right now.

[Yog]

Hope you don't mind me throwing in my 2 pennys worth. These are some of the standard tests I do on any new renderer. They help me gauge settings when making materials.
First some roughness tests using the aluminium material


The next are glass samples. Top is a solid sphere, middle is a hollow sphere with the bottom cut off, last is a flat plane (with thickness).




I think I need to do more testing on the Absorbance setting, doesn't appear to have much effect, I get a more predictible result using colour to control absorbance (or effect of).

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[slobodan]

Hi guys,


Do you still need Dual Athlon benchmark??

I have:
Dual Opteron 248
2GB OCZ Ram
Asus k8N-DL MOBO
ATI FireGL V7100
I think this is all that matters for benchmark.

Slobodan

[tom]

Thank you YOG!

[slobodan]

Thank you YOG, very helpful.

By the way, has anybody seen maxwell reach 25 samples in their lifetime??? The most I have seen is 21 on my dual opteron after 24h and it's still unacceptably grainy.