[LesliePere]

Hello,

So I've just upgraded to a quadcore processor this weekend and installed a dual boot config (XP 32 and 64).

To my surprise, when I render the test scene at benchwell.com, rendering with the 32bit version is 31 second FASTER then rendering with the 64bit version.

Since maxwell has native 64 bit support, I thought it should be the other way around. I expected 64bit being somewhat faster. Is this normal?

(4G ram)

[lebbeus]

it's normal--you won't necessarily see a performance increase with a 64bit OS right now, but you will be able to run bigger scenes (provided you have the RAM) and render at higher resolutions

[def4d]

Hope it will be inverted for the next release

[Mihai]

64bit should actually be a bit faster than 32b, but not by much. This has also been confirmed by users. Perhaps you are running more services or background tasks on the 64b install?

[-Adrian]

On benchwell, if varies. But on average i'd say x64 is slightly faster.