[sandykoufax]

Ahhhh, woodcrest 2core's result (1h24m56s) is a bit disappointed.

I know that Xeon 5160 is top model of woodcrest.

It just faster only 16m than Xeon 3.8GHz' 1h40m.

[adamwade]

Hey Tom,

I can understand that time and SL are not to be compared between V1 and V1.1, but I thought Benchmark should be a fair comparison? Is this wrong as well?

[Thomas An.]

Hey Tom,

I can understand that time and SL are not to be compared between V1 and V1.1, but I thought Benchmark should be a fair comparison? Is this wrong as well?

Time should be the only criterion. In other words you render the same scene between the two engines for the exact same amount of time.

However, as Tom mentioned, benchmark numbers and SL numbers do not correspond between different engine versions and should not be used for comparison.

[adamwade]

Yeah, but that means we just compare the 2 images and see which one looks best? There has to be a an SL or Benchmark to compare. OR, I guess we could all test until SL 25 limit then see who gets there first ..... some of us may not be alive by then to post our results

[Thomas An.]

Yeah, but that means we just compare the 2 images and see which one looks best? There has to be a an SL or Benchmark to compare. OR, I guess we could all test until SL 25 limit then see who gets there first ..... some of us may not be alive by then to post our results

I know ... but still the numbers do not correspond, so going by SL or benchmanrk numbers is no better than going by eye.

The only time we can use SL or benchmark is when doing CPU tests and render the same image accross several PCs

Doing a cross-engine is tricky and can be tedious. There was an attempt here, but it is involved and it needed to sample "regions" to avoid the noise patterning effects.
http://www.maxwellrender.com/forum/view ... t=isolates

[adamwade]

Here is the result from our newest machine at work:

Dell Precission 490
Intel Xeon Core Duo 3.0 GHz 5050 (X2) = 4 cores
2GB RAM
XP Pro

Maxwell V1.0
Benchmark= 38.76
Time = 108 min.

Console read: Processors: 8 logical/ 4 physical

I am a little disappointed that it didn't even match the Mac G5 Quad core, but then I am also smiling because I love Macs

[beppeg]

very strange
like the JDHill's Dual Xeon 3.8 GHz HT @ 4.0 GHz
But andrebaros, in another post, gets 84' instead of 108'

[sandykoufax]

begpeg, andrebaros's new xeon is not the same with JD's.

He said that his machine (Xeon 5160) is woodcrest, not irwindale or dempsey.

IMO, andrebaros' benchmark result of 1st page list is not woodcrest, maybe his old machine.

Anyway, result of woodcrest is disappointed.

[beppeg]

sorry sandy for the confusion
I was talking about the two Intel Xeon Core Duo 3.0 of andrebaros and adamwade, now I see that they have differnt numbers, 5050 and 5160 and also not the same number of cores

[beppeg]

Another thought
adamwade, have you set the numer of th = 4 in the mxcl?

[glassbathroom]

Ahhhh, woodcrest 2core's result (1h24m56s) is a bit disappointed.

I know that Xeon 5160 is top model of woodcrest.

It just faster only 16m than Xeon 3.8GHz' 1h40m.

I'll run it on my Quad Core 2.66 Xeon (5150) Mac Pro, when it gets here.

[sandykoufax]

Yes, adamwade's benchmark is stange.

quad core xeon's mark is slower than athlon x2 dualcore.

Does anybody has Core 2 Duo (E6600 or others)?

I heard that Intel's conroe and woodcrest are almost same core except FSB.

Then, E6600(2.4Ghz) would be slower than woodcrest 5160 (3Ghz).

If so, it's not attractive than athlon x2.

We needs more benchmarks.

[adamwade]

beppeg,

I will check again that my threads were set to 4, but in my post I said that the console read:

Processors: 8 logical/ 4 physical

I thought this meant everything is working.

[adamwade]

Hold everything !

Yes my render threads were set to 4, but that's wrong! I was testing a 4 core machine so I realized that it should be set to 8 threads.

WOW! what a difference: so here is the real results......

Dell Precision 490
Dual processor (4 cores)
Xeon 3.0 GHz 5050 dual core
2GB RAM
Windows XP Pro

Test Scene:
Benchmark=62.14
Time= 69 min's

[glassbathroom]

That's a bit more like it! Well done.