Benchmark rendertimes

[Zarabadoo]

I figures I may as well toss in my stats. I was sort of disappointed in the lack of difference between the non-threaded and threaded times. It does only use one core when building particles though, and that is a good chunk of time there.

Version of Blender: CVS built 6-18-2006 MSCV
Motherboard: ASRock 939Dual-SATA2
Processor: AMD Athlon X2 3800+ Manchester Dual Core 2GHz
L1 Data Cache: 64 KBytes
L1 Code Cache: 64 KBytes
L2 Cache: 512 KBytes
Memory: 1GB OCZ DDR PC3200 Dual-Channel
Operating System: Windows XP Professional SP2
Render Time without threads: 1:59.12
Render Time with threads: 1:31.10

EDIT I figured I should give it a try after running SmartClose and killing all the other stuff I had running and these are the results with the same machine.

w/o threads: 1:56.38
with threads: 1:29.06

[pine]

w/o threads: 1:45:81
with threads: 1:45:24

Amd Athlon 64 3000+
1 Gig dual channel DDR400
Ubuntu 6.06 (32bit i386)

Current Bf-blender-cvs compiled today (18.6.)

[hazooka]

Originally Posted by Zarabadoo Version of Blender: CVS built 6-18-2006 MSCV Motherboard: ASRock 939Dual-SATA2 Processor: AMD Athlon X2 3800+ Manchester Dual Core 2GHz L1 Data Cache: 64 KBytes L1 Code Cache: 64 KBytes L2 Cache: 512 KBytes Memory: 1GB OCZ DDR PC3200 Dual-Channel Operating System: Windows XP Professional SP2 w/o threads: 1:56.38 with threads: 1:29.06

now, that's the poor result !!!

2x2Gh G5 (good old PowerPC), 1 Gb ram
one thread 1:36
two threads 1:22

P.S.
gunnarstahl Do not shange your ibook. PowerPC roolz !!!

[joorva]

Without threads - 1 min 58 sec

With threads - 1 min 43 sec

My Pc:
MB - Asus with i865 chip
GPU - Pentium 4 2,8@3,4 GHz HT "Northwood"
RAM - 1GB DDR 333MHz

On Win XP SP2 and stable 2.41.

[hazooka]

Well folks, sorry for being rude especialy Zarabadoo

[twmffat]

2:36:06 without threads
2:36:31 with threads

AMD XP2500+ 1.85GHz
512MB

Windows XP Pro SP2

[Zarabadoo]

Originally Posted by hazooka Well folks, sorry for being rude especialy Zarabadoo

Accepted. I did try the SSE2 optimized version a little bit ago and I did come up with results closer to yours. So there is definitely some advantage to that.

[snelleeddy]

Woohoo
I'm proud of my stupid non upgradable acer computer

So it a basic acer E500
1GbDDRII
3.0Ghz Pentium 4 630 HT
ATI x300SE Hm 256mb
Windows Media Centre Edition (Basic Xp Sp2 with some stupid extra programs if you ask me)

And the times are:

2:14:14 unthreaded
1:59:74 threaded

And then I turned off Norton anti virus Internet protection:

2:11:70 unthreaded
1:58:70 threaded

(first time I tried threaded it was waiting idle second time it made blender a big black screen but rendered nontheless)

Allso I notice that my Ram is only used for 66% and 50% (unthreaded) and 100% (threaded) of my cpu if I'm not mistaking.

[chuzzy06]

HP Media Center Dual Core 3800+ AMD athlon (64)
1.0 GB ram
blender 2:21.39
xpart/ypart = 1: 2:23.11... I lose

[CGuy]

Blender 2.4

dell 2400
P4 2.66GHz 1Gb RAM
2.33 seconds
with "threads" on: 2.31 seconds (Not suprising because this CPU is not HT capable...)

[halfgaar]

Athlon X2 3800+ (dual core, 2GHz per core).
Dual channel 2GB DDR400 memory.
Blender 2.41
Gentoo Linux.
General build flags: "-O3 -march=i686 -mtune=athlon-xp -pipe" (alhouth the blender e-build overrides -O3 to -O2 I believe).

Non-threaded: 1.38.16
Threaded: 1.20.64.

I don't know if it's mentioned already BTW, but somewhere earlier in this thread the point was made that memory is more important. That should be rephrased to that memory speed (not quantity) is very important, mostly when raytracing is concerned (which this scene does not use). Dual channel memory would seem to be a good thing. The amount of memory you require is simply a constant. More memory does not improve speed, except that you can increase the size of the oct tree when you have more memory.

Edit: I noticed the SSE2 speed increases. Official support for SSE2 would be cool...

[PhilBo]

Here's my system and marks.

Athlon 64 3000+ (Venice Core)
Abit UL8 MB
2 WD 80GB Drives in Raid 0 Array
2 Gig Ram (Patriot CL3 PC3200)

Windows XP SP2
Blender 2.41
No Threads - 2:12.57
Threads - 2:12.34

Vista Beta 2 x86 Version
BLender 2.41
No Threads - 2:16.73
Threads - 2:15.08

DreamLinux (Live CD Distro)
Blender 2.40
No Threads - 1:42.65
Threads - 1:42.06

[lhz]

Linux64 dualcore
mobo: ASRock 939Dual-SATA2
cpu: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 3800+
1999.802 MHZ 512 kb Cache
ram: 1.25 GIG RAM
disc: IDE seagate ST3200826A
os: debian sarge amd64
blender: 2.41.glib-2.3.2.x64_py24 (from blender org)
gfx: nvidia 6800 1280x1024
w/ threads 1:11.52
w/o threads 1:21.70

help->system->benchmark->draw
0.27 s/op 3.62 op/s 19 Iterations

---------------------------------

sgi fuel
mobo: sgi
cpu: MIPS r14000A
600 MHZ 4 MB Cache
ram: 2 GIG
disc: seagate SCSI U160
os: IRIX64 6.5.22
blender: 2.41 mips4 nekoware from nekochan.net
gfx: v8, 1280_1024
w/ threads 4:23.50
w/o threads 5:02.44

help->system->benchmark->draw
0.055445 s/op 18.04 op/s 91 iterations

[bannerboy]

Originally Posted by Fliberty Not as good as i had hoped. Seems like its only using half of my cpu when i render. So, I'll have to look into that.

Blender can only run two threads at the moment, and you have 4 processor cores.

I'm running a 2.0Ghz Athalon64 X2(Dual Core) with 512M ram, and I got 1:25 with blender 2.41 and 1:26 with blender 2.42(CVS).

oh, and btw, I'm running ubuntu 5.10 linux.

I've got a laptop that is dual-booting Windows XP Professional, and Debian linux, so I'll be able to get you some good comparisons soon.

[winnie]

Pentium D dual core 3.2 GHz
1 GB ddr2 ram (2x512 dual channel)
suse linux 10.1 64bit
blender 2.41 64bit

no threads: 1:40.10
with threads: 1:25.27

[Pixel81k]

ok, here comes ancient machina - Intel Pentium III running at 800MHz, using 256MB Ram..... no enhancements afaik... running on Suse Linux 10.0 on Kernel 2.6.13-15.10-default Blender 2.41 w/o threads: 09:02:00 w/ threads *gg: 10:18:59 Greetings PS: sorry, somehow can't submit carriage returns =)

[Tjeiken]

512 MB DDR Ram
Intel Pentium M 1,6 GHz
Blender 2.41

no threads
02:14.85

threaded
02:14.74

[freqmod]

My statistics:
Nonthreaded:
real 1m26.637s
user 1m23.881s
sys 0m0.848s
blwin 1m24.16s

Threaded:
real 1m6.311s
user 1m27.513s
sys 0m1.832s
blwin 1m05s

Commandline (threaded) (info stripped):
time ./blender -d -b /home/freqmod/tmp/grass_tutorialT.blend -f1 -o tmp
build particles
.....
Fra:1 Mem:136.12M Sce: grass Ve:739809 Fa:337625 La:18
Fra:1 Mem:184.57M | Part 1-4
Fra:1 Mem:187.26M | Part 2-4
Fra:1 Mem:194.38M | Part 3-4
Fra:1 Mem:172.97M | Part 4-4
Saved: grass_anim0001.jpg Time: 01:05.19

System info:

Blender version: built from CVS as of 18.6.2006

/proc/version:
Linux version 2.6.17-rc6-mm2-fm2rfsni (freqmod@store) (gcc version 4.0.3 (Ubuntu 4.0.3-1ubuntu5)) #4 SMP Mon Jun 12 14:18:37 CEST 2006

/proc/cpuinfo:
First core:
processor : 0
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 15
model : 6
model name : Intel(R) Pentium(R) D CPU 3.00GHz
stepping : 2
cpu MHz : 2992.593
cache size : 2048 KB
physical id : 0
siblings : 2
core id : 0
cpu cores : 2
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 6
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm syscall nx lm constant_tsc pni monitor ds_cpl vmx cid cx16 xtpr lahf_lm
bogomips : 5990.56
clflush size : 64
cache_alignment : 128
address sizes : 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management:

Second core: (differences):
processor : 1
core id : 1
bogomips : 5985.82

/proc/meminfo:
MemTotal: 1025788 kB

[Tartiflette]

Hello !

On a MacBookPro, 2Ghz, 1,5GB RAM, Mac OS X 10.4.7, Blender for Mac OS X x86 (don't remember the exact release...)

With threads activated :

1'17"67

Pretty interesting, no ?

BTW, i hope that we'll see the future 2.42 on the MacIntel !

Regards,
Laurent aka Tartiflette

[Killbot]

Sorry for the slight derail, but can somebody point me in the direction of where to download the CVS builds. I can't seem to find them. Then maybe I can give this a try.

Edit: Nevermind, found them