Houdini on the M1 Pro vs Ryzen 9 5900HS

[hefeglass]

Ran some Houdini tests, the m1 pro was actually quite a bit faster than my ryzen laptop for particle simulation, slightly slower in particle simulation playback, and pretty much dead even with particle meshing.
This is running Houdini intel version through Rosetta 2

 

[thunng8]

Ran some Houdini tests, the m1 pro was actually quite a bit faster than my ryzen laptop for particle simulation, slightly slower in particle simulation playback, and pretty much dead even with particle meshing.
This is running Houdini intel version through Rosetta 2

That is quite impressive performance even under Rosetta 2. I expect the native version should be quite a bit faster.

The difference is Fan noise is also quite astounding

 

[mi7chy]

Houdini non-commercial free version doesn't use GPU acceleration?

 

[leman]

Does Houdini use Metal acceleration?

 

[hefeglass]

Does Houdini use Metal acceleration?

no, its not even ARM native, im running the intel version
still does quite well

 

[leman]

no, its not even ARM native, im running the intel version
still does quite well

I was more wondering about GPU acceleration. It probably uses OpenCL under the hood right? If that is the case, it’s not optimized for or tested with Apple GPUs at all, so expect major speedup once (and if) they port it.

 

[hefeglass]

I was more wondering about GPU acceleration. It probably uses OpenCL under the hood right? If that is the case, it’s not optimized for or tested with Apple GPUs at all, so expect major speedup once (and if) they port it.

yes it uses openCL