[-Adrian]

Could someone test the current (old) benchwell file on 1.6 and tell me if it works. I get a black render, unless i launch it over Studio.

That aside Benchwell is pretty much ready for your entries.
You can now add a small comment to your entry, in case there's anything curious about your setup etc.
The posibility of leaving your email address is simply to allow me to get in touch with you, should i have questions (doubts ) about your entry - it will not be visible to others.

[jespi]

Working fine here on win 32 xp.

[Thomas An.]

What's with the ivox graphiti ?

[-Adrian]

I don't have the original file anymore (blimey), so it's a placeholder until i have done a new one.

[Tyrone Marshall]

No problem, I am happy with the message entry here to at least show that with 1.6 the gulf between Mac and Win systems is no more of an issue and in my test of dual booting between Mac OSX 10.4.10 & 10.5 and Win XP SP2.

We don't know that.
If the other users run the tests again on 1.6 they could be faster as well all across the board thus keeping the relative position on the rankings the same.

I know that for my machine because I run the benchmark file on both Win and MAC. I have a dual boot machine. (Same Hardware- Only change in OS) Win XP SP2 on one hard drive partition and OSX 10.5 on another hard drive partition other.

[Tyrone Marshall]

Could someone test the current (old) benchwell file on 1.6 and tell me if it works. I get a black render, unless i launch it over Studio.

That aside Benchwell is pretty much ready for your entries.
You can now add a small comment to your entry, in case there's anything curious about your setup etc.
The posibility of leaving your email address is simply to allow me to get in touch with you, should i have questions (doubts ) about your entry - it will not be visible to others.

I can confirm the old 1.5 file works on 1.6.

MAC OSX benchmark for my machine added to benchmark.

[-Adrian]

Thanks Tyrone and jespi, it now works here as well without changing anything, must've been a random bug.

Great score Tyrone, looks like OSX is really up to par now.

[martgreg]

did anyone see any marked improvement in speed ?

i know someone did say they saw a 14 % increase in speed..

i didn't !

what about you guys !!

[martgreg]

I just have a core 2 duo 6600 but the x64 render time was cut in half with 1.6. pretty awesome

are you serious ????!!!!! live 25 mins ?????

how much does xp 64 bit cost for a lic ??

[-Adrian]

how much does xp 64 bit cost for a lic ??

Usually the same as normal XP Pro.

[Tyrone Marshall]

New record:

MXCL Preview 64 bits

OSX 10.5 64 bit Leopard - MXCL 64 bit - SL of 15.00. Benchmark of 1132.295. Time: 9m29s

[jespi]

[Tyrone Marshall]_Using Preview Version of MXCL 64 Bits through terminal command line.

Could you elaborate more on this? Do you mean that there is a test version of maxwell 64 bit for Leopard? Thanks in advance.

[mrcz]

did anyone see any marked improvement in speed ?

i know someone did say they saw a 14 % increase in speed..

i didn't !

what about you guys !!

I have tested it on two scenes ( one of them was benchwell) and it looks like near 20% speed increase ( 1.5.1 32-bit versus 1.6 64-bit).
But it depends on scene probably.


Martin

[dkessler]

Is there a tutorial on using the 64-bit Technology Preview?

[Luca_Studioaltieri]

wow.. i did the bench.
1.6 looks very very very very faster, while my 1.5 bench was over an hour (same pc conditions), here new OUTSTANDING results. (i did test more than a time, with equal results 1.6 vs 1.5).

i did the test also with my own scenes, and i can't believe 1.6 is over 35-45% faster. wow.

btw, here benchwell 1.6 log:




===================== New session opened at 26/November/2007 08:53:06 =====

Maxwell Render® 1.6 - x64
(C) 2004-2007. Next Limit Technologies

mxcl.exe -mxs:D:/benchwell_scene_11.11.07_win/sculpture_tmp.mxs -d -o:C:\Program Files\Next Limit\Maxwell\default.png -p:low
--------------------------------------------------------------------------

WARNING: - Low Priority Enabled

[26/November/2007 08:53:06] Reading MXS:D:/benchwell_scene_11.11.07_win/sculpture_tmp.mxs
[26/November/2007 08:53:06] MXS file read successfully

Geometry:
- Num Meshes: 9
- Num Triangles: 126026
- Num Vertexes: 63446
- Num Normals: 61466
Render settings:

- render core : RS1
- render version : Maxwell Render® 1.6 - x64
- desired rendering time : 125h00m
- desired sampling level : 15
- render resolution : 960 x 768
- using 0 threads
- illumination layers:
. . direct layer: true
. . indirect layer: true
. . direct caustic reflection layer: true
. . direct caustic refraction layer: true
. . indirect caustic reflection layer: true
. . indirect caustic refraction layer: true

[26/November/2007 08:53:06] Checking Data
[26/November/2007 08:53:06] Loading Bitmaps & Preprocessing Data
[26/November/2007 08:53:08] Start Voxelization
[26/November/2007 08:53:08] End of voxelization
[26/November/2007 08:53:09] Start Rendering

[26/November/2007 08:53:11] SL of 1.00. Benchmark of 298.669. Time: 2s
[26/November/2007 08:53:14] SL of 2.00. Benchmark of 335.672. Time: 5s
[26/November/2007 08:53:18] SL of 3.00. Benchmark of 368.260. Time: 10s
[26/November/2007 08:53:24] SL of 4.00. Benchmark of 398.102. Time: 15s
[26/November/2007 08:53:31] SL of 5.00. Benchmark of 425.641. Time: 23s
[26/November/2007 08:53:43] SL of 6.00. Benchmark of 449.692. Time: 34s
[26/November/2007 08:53:59] SL of 7.00. Benchmark of 468.722. Time: 51s
[26/November/2007 08:54:23] SL of 8.00. Benchmark of 485.269. Time: 1m15s
[26/November/2007 08:54:59] SL of 9.00. Benchmark of 500.552. Time: 1m50s
[26/November/2007 08:55:51] SL of 10.00. Benchmark of 513.531. Time: 2m43s
[26/November/2007 08:57:10] SL of 11.00. Benchmark of 522.873. Time: 4m01s
[26/November/2007 08:59:06] SL of 12.00. Benchmark of 531.668. Time: 5m57s
[26/November/2007 09:01:59] SL of 13.00. Benchmark of 538.203. Time: 8m50s
[26/November/2007 09:06:23] SL of 14.00. Benchmark of 540.096. Time: 13m14s
[26/November/2007 09:12:54] SL of 15.00. Benchmark of 543.645. Time: 19m45s

[26/November/2007 09:12:54] Render finished succesfully