[ivox3]

http://hothardware.com/News/Intel-Unvei ... Server-CPU

Just look at that task manager screenshot ! ......

Took me a minute to even realize what the hell I was looking at...

[cgbeige]

ya, I thought my 16 bars was a lot. that's ridiculous

[dmeyer]

I ran some new benchwells today, curious to find any performance difference between XP64 and OSX on identical hardware.

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

OSX Scores: (all using 1.7.1. numbers presented are an average of 3 runs)

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

XP64 Scores:

64 bit Maxwell, via GUI: 1200 in 8:58
64 bit Maxwell, via CLI: 1195 in 9:00

Update:

Mac Pro 2009 8-core 2.93

32 bit Maxwell GUI 2056 in 5:13. About 76% faster than the Harpertown 3.2. Not bad.

[cgbeige]

try it with the 64-bit client.

[Josephus Holt]

the new Intel Nehalem-EX coming out later this year will have 128 threads PER processor With the reported speed increases in MW v2, on one machine we could be looking at a high quality render in less than an hour which would have taken maybe a couple of hundred hours on my previous dual core machine!!!

I think you mean 128 per 8-socket system. 16 per processor.

I think so... Maybe I should have said per cpu??? (8 core cpu, one socket, 16 threads per core)???

[cgbeige]

It's 2 threads per core.

[Josephus Holt]

It's 2 threads per core.

I would have thought that too, but check out the link mentioned in an earlier post...Intel is saying 16 threads per core for a total of 128 threads on and 8 core cpu.

[dmeyer]

try it with the 64-bit client.

2082 in 5:09

[cgbeige]

weird. I get 2214 on a 2.6 GHz Nehalem Mac Pro

[arch3990]

weird. I get 2214 on a 2.6 GHz Nehalem Mac Pro

that's interesting - my results:

X5550 ES @ ASUS Z8PE-D12X/12 GB - X64:

Benchwell: 5.47 - 1856.64
Frybench: 3.55

4x Opteron 8360SE B2 @ Tyan Thunder n3600QE/8GB - X64:

Benchwell: 5.38 - 1904.44
Frybench: 4.56

[dmeyer]

I see AMD has released their Istanbul chips. Boxx has systems with them. Any guesses on their times?

[vandigital]

Just ran this with my i7. Its overclocked to 4.0 GHz for a grand total of 32 GHz of render goodness. time came in at 7m 19s. Ram is also clocked pretty high as well. Full load on all threads jumps my temp around 69 degrees. Not bad considering. Idle it sits at 30 degrees.

[KurtS]

arch3990 - are you using the demo version?

[cgbeige]

I ran it on the Snow Leopard beta to see if it made a difference and my 8-core Nehalem 2.66 Mac Pro score of 2214 has now been trumped by a 2230 in Snow Leopard. Not bad.

[Eric Lagman]

Just ran this with my i7. Its overclocked to 4.0 GHz for a grand total of 32 GHz of render goodness. time came in at 7m 19s. Ram is also clocked pretty high as well. Full load on all threads jumps my temp around 69 degrees. Not bad considering. Idle it sits at 30 degrees.

32ghz? Are you using a xeon i7 that you overclocked that high? I would think your time would be lower if you were. If its just the standard i7 chip which your time matches up with you should only be getting 16ghz total. 4 of those threads in your task manager are just from hyperthreading.