Blender benchmarks, new feature needed ?

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The results in the thread ‘2-61-Cycles-render-benchmark’ are not easily exploitable, I think it’s time to have a feature in Blender that can help benchmarking.

Description :
Create a simple feature in blender that can produce a « log » file that store datas of the benchmark .
The log file can be send (to blender.org?) .

The data is then aggregated and the results can be seen through a sheet.

Users :

  • main developpers of Blender. It can help to have feedback of new Blender revisions across many different configs,
  • Blender users, to improve the benchmark results and to see if their config is OK or how to improve it.

Inputs :

  • hardware config : CPU(s), main RAM, GPU(s)
  • software : OS revision used, Blender revision,
  • blend file used (with revision). The blender developpers should select what scene(s) can be interesting to benchmark.
  • all the render, sampling, light passes and performance options used.

Treatment :

  • store time datas in memory when the user render a scene,
  • produce a XML file and on screen.

Output :

  • a XML file containing all the datas, with a checksum. It will contain all input datas and differents time of treatment: total time, time for synchronizing objects, building BVH, …
  • the results in a screen in Blender, with an option to send it to the net.
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Not a bad idea. I suspect Blenderheads would desire clear opt-in dialogs. I’d make a Blender Development Fund donation to that potential feature.

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i sense endi’s response won’t be too long now…

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If I am not mistaken, it was already here and now its gone again.

He said, “yes we need more features” or something like that.

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Wouldn’t be too hard (for someone else) to knock that out as a python addon, might require some rna magic to get all the wanted stats though.

Uh, yeah, he always says something like that which is what makes him so annoying.

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Perhaps the easiest thing would be a script that runs through the Blender regression suite with a timer.