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After Effects CS6 CUDA Benchmark Test
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MacPro 5,1 hex 3,33GHz
16GB RAM
GTX 570 2,5GB in slot 1
6m40s
Rendered at around 8 minutes when I have the GT610 in slot 2 even when it's headless. It's my Da Vinci GUI card so it's a bit of a pain to see AE take such a performance hit when it's plugged in even though not used. I'll try swapping the slots around when I have a bit more time.
Does anyone know if the GT120 or other GUI card shows a similar penalty?
16GB RAM
GTX 570 2,5GB in slot 1
6m40s
Rendered at around 8 minutes when I have the GT610 in slot 2 even when it's headless. It's my Da Vinci GUI card so it's a bit of a pain to see AE take such a performance hit when it's plugged in even though not used. I'll try swapping the slots around when I have a bit more time.
Does anyone know if the GT120 or other GUI card shows a similar penalty?
Poor Performance
Finally gave up as the estimated time remaining was 8hrs
And here's me thinking i had a pro machine
Processor 2 x 2.4 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon
Memory 26 GB 1066 MHz DDR3 ECC
Graphics ATI Radeon HD 5770 1024 MB
Software Mac OS X Lion 10.7.5 (11G63)
Finally gave up as the estimated time remaining was 8hrs
And here's me thinking i had a pro machine
Processor 2 x 2.4 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon
Memory 26 GB 1066 MHz DDR3 ECC
Graphics ATI Radeon HD 5770 1024 MB
Software Mac OS X Lion 10.7.5 (11G63)
This is a CUDA test and your using an AMD which doesn't have CUDA, kind of to be expected that it would return such results.
I wonder what a Titan or 780 does on this
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I don't own an Nvidia card at this time considering a 780, Titan or 7970 but haven't decided yet.
But If you need CUDA according to toms hardware's CUDA benchmarks it seems that a 780 is second best to a titan, around that of a 580 in some tests which is harder to find recently, but at around half the price a 780 is probably a good deal. (Still not sure how well the Nvidia Drivers work for it as I haven't personally bought and tested one someone else probably could give more insight on that)
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/geforce-gtx-780-performance-review,3516-26.html
I do. In fact, I need 8 Titans for Octane Render and Cinema 4d. Here's the sample project AE performance of one of them - 3 min 43 seconds.
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There are 151 frames. 3 x 60 secs = 180 secs; + 43 secs = 223 secs; 223 / 151 = ~ 1.47 secs per frame.
If by simple. you mean one that it took under 1/5 of the time it took a system with 2 x 8 core xeon e5 @ 3.3ghz and a Quadro 4000 (17 min. 24 secs) to render.
That isn't what I meant. I meant a lighter scene in terms of geometry and material complexity. Even 17 min. 24 secs isn't much time for that number of frames.
Finally was able to test this on a CS6 machine...
Mac Pro 5,1
3.33 GHz 6-Core Xeon
48GB 1333 DDR3 RAM ECC
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 (EVGA Official Mac Version in Slot 1)
OS X 10.8.4
NVIDIA Web Driver 313.01.02f01 (using this driver in the NVIDIA Driver Manager, not the OS X default driver)
6 Min, 39 Sec
Mac Pro 5,1
3.33 GHz 6-Core Xeon
48GB 1333 DDR3 RAM ECC
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 (EVGA Official Mac Version in Slot 1)
OS X 10.8.4
NVIDIA Web Driver 313.01.02f01 (using this driver in the NVIDIA Driver Manager, not the OS X default driver)
6 Min, 39 Sec
MacPro 5,1
8-core 2.4Ghz
20GB Ram
8 Bay RAID5 (950mb/s up/down)
Latest version of Mountain Lion and Nvidia Drivers.
Nvidia GTX 680 Mac Version
6 Min, 42 Sec
8-core 2.4Ghz
20GB Ram
8 Bay RAID5 (950mb/s up/down)
Latest version of Mountain Lion and Nvidia Drivers.
Nvidia GTX 680 Mac Version
6 Min, 42 Sec
Swapped out the 570 with a EVGA GTX580 3GB Classified Ultra and got the following results with the same specs minus the card and a flash to 5,1:
5min 10sec
With both 570 and 580 installed:
5min 2 sec
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Thinking about picking up another factory refurb 580 Classified Ultra before they disappear. Only thing holding me back is having to buy another power supply(A 750w Corsair is powering the 580), but altogether still cheaper than other alternatives.