[dmeyer]

We're ordering a 2.93 soon. Shooting for 2500 bench. Will update when the time comes.

Speaking of which, anyone know when the benchwell site will open up again?

[-Adrian]

Apple ran the benchmark too btw, so you have at least two sources to rely on. The new Mac Pro or rather the Xeons inside are great for Maxwell, enough said.

[dmeyer]

I'm actually kind of curious how v2 will affect the speed difference. As in, is the Hyperthreading showing this massive boost due to some inefficiency in the 1.7.1 core? Under v2.0, will the 55xx series chips be only ~20% faster like most other renderers?

[cgbeige]

ya, I was thinking about that. I think it's possible that's what you're seeing with Maxwell and hyperthreading: lots of bubbles in data fed to the CPU, which are being eliminated by hyperthreading. Cinema 4D and Mental Ray don't get nearly the boost that Maxwell does with hyperthreading. Anyway, if 2.0 looks to be as fast as it is, I can't complain.

[cgbeige]

Apple ran the benchmark too btw, so you have at least two sources to rely on. The new Mac Pro or rather the Xeons inside are great for Maxwell, enough said.

well that Ars Technica source is me so I tend to trust it .

[messire]

"is my personal result - 2214 with 1.7 64-bit and a 2.66 GHz 8-core Nehalem Mac Pro."

its pretty interesting to see the comparison to the data i got with my 2.26 ghz 8 core nehalem mac pro with 16 gb ram: 1612
37% improvement in speed seems almost unbelievable for such a small Ghz difference...are you sure about your results?

Nils

[cgbeige]

ya, I tested it around 3 times. But I'm using the 64-bit version. That makes a big difference.

[dmeyer]

ya, I tested it around 3 times. But I'm using the 64-bit version. That makes a big difference.

Not always...

My test machine:
Mac Pro early 2008
8-core 3.2 GHZ
16GB RAM
Dual boot: XP64 and OSX 10.5.6

32 bit Maxwell, via GUI: 1169 in 9:10
32 bit Maxwell, via CLI: 1176 in 9:07

64 bit Maxwell, via CLI: 1105 in 9:43

Ran each one 3 times. Times posted are an average.

[ivox3]

Mr.Benchwell .... what is up? All these new machines out here are tearing it up --- They need a new salt flat for head to head racing. lol..

That place is your little table in the middle of a park. ...no pressure though.

Tell me we are not waiting on 2.0... ?

[AndreD]

...would be nice to share our latenst benchmark results, any idea when benchwell-base will be back agaion?!

[messire]

"ya, I tested it around 3 times. But I'm using the 64-bit version. That makes a big difference."

not sure to understand..i thought OSX beeing 64 bit, MR would run natively in 64 isn't it the case? how do i make it render in 64 otherwise..?
N

[dmeyer]

"ya, I tested it around 3 times. But I'm using the 64-bit version. That makes a big difference."

not sure to understand..i thought OSX beeing 64 bit, MR would run natively in 64 isn't it the case? how do i make it render in 64 otherwise..?
N

In 1.7.1, to use 64 bit you must use the mxcl version in the Maxwell->64 bit tech preview folder.

[messire]

geee totally forgot it was there will post benchwell results asap
thnx
Nils

[Almfeldt]

Whats happening with the Benchwell site....

Built a new budget machine, but overclocked its performing realy welll.
The core I7 920 is superb. overklocked to 3.6ghZ stable and did the test render in 8.06 min.
For me thats realy good render power for not that much $$$$..

[Bubbaloo]

Whats happening with the Benchwell site....

Built a new budget machine, but overclocked its performing realy welll.
The core I7 920 is superb. overklocked to 3.6ghZ stable and did the test render in 8.06 min.
For me thats realy good render power for not that much $$$$..

Care to share your budget machine specs? How much did you spend?