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Mac Pro D500 Unit ready for Testing. What would you like me to run?
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I'm a rookie compared to you guys (and an animator so I'm not much of a modeler) but I LOVE Modo, just a fantastically intuitive little package. The folks at The Foundry/Luxology seem to work pretty closely with Apple so I'm hoping for some nice performance with the nMO.
Great to read up on all this testing, thanks for doing it. If you get a chance I'd love to see a render time for this Maya scene, I realize it's simple (and old) but it's the scene several of my PC friends have used for benchmarking so it'd be helpful as a comparison.
Thanks!
Blackmagic Disk Speed Test
Any chance on running Quickbench 4.0? I'm running a cMP with a 128GB flash - open market variant of what Apple is shipping with the nMP - the XP941. Quickbench shows 970MB/sec reads and 696.99MB/sec writes which is close in performance to the flash in the nMP.
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http://www.luxrender.net/release/luxmark/LuxMark_v2.1_OSXIntel64.zip
Luxmark Bench please.
Scene LuxBall with 1 GPU, 2 GPUs, CPU only and 2 GPUs + CPU.
Luxmark Bench please.
Scene LuxBall with 1 GPU, 2 GPUs, CPU only and 2 GPUs + CPU.
FYI all, I've added another 16GB of ram to this machine..so all test past this point are using 48GB of ram.
Sorry, you'll have to make due with the Blackmagic test. I'm not up to paying $15 for a benchmarking tool.
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I didn't command line render it, but in the gui render it took 27 seconds.
Sorry, you'll have to make due with the Blackmagic test. I'm not up to paying $15 for a benchmarking tool.
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I didn't command line render it, but in the gui render it took 27 seconds.
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I guess this is a small penalty for getting one of the first units. It is you guys that get to work out all the early issues.
Actually that one is quite popular.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3264318
and
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5167043
X-Plane
Appreciate that you're probably coming to the end of testing now, but if you did have time I'd be hugely grateful if you could test X-Plane. Steps below:
0. Quit any other non-essential apps.
1. Download the demo installer from http://www.x-plane.c...nstallerMac.zip
2. Double-click the "X-Plane 10 Demo Installer" app to run it.
3. Let the app install X-Plane to the default location, which is "X-Plane 10 Demo" on the desktop.
4. Once the installer has finished downloading and installing the demo, start the "Terminal" app, which lives under Applications -> Utilities -> Terminal
5. In the Terminal app window type:
cd "Desktop/X-Plane 10 Demo"
(Note that punctuation and case are important).
6. Still in the Terminal app window start the test by typing:
./X-Plane.app/Contents/MacOS/X-Plane --fps_test=1 --load_smo=Output/replays/test_flight_c4.fdr
(If X-Plane complains about uncalibrated joysticks, just answer "No").
7. When X-Plane has finished the test, in Finder navigate to Desktop -> X-Plane 10 Demo and double-click on the file Log.txt to open it in TextEdit.
8. In TextEdit, search for the word framerate, and record what the line says and the following line, which will be something like:
FRAMERATE TEST: time=23.5, frames=6686, fps=284.30
GPU LOAD: time=82.3, wait=25.1, load=30.5%
9. Close Log.txt.
10. Repeat steps 6 to 9 with --fps_test=2 and --fps_test=3.
11. If the tester is feeling especially helpful, repeat steps 6 to 10 with --load_smo=Output/replays/test_flight_747.fdr
Many thanks!
Appreciate that you're probably coming to the end of testing now, but if you did have time I'd be hugely grateful if you could test X-Plane. Steps below:
0. Quit any other non-essential apps.
1. Download the demo installer from http://www.x-plane.c...nstallerMac.zip
2. Double-click the "X-Plane 10 Demo Installer" app to run it.
3. Let the app install X-Plane to the default location, which is "X-Plane 10 Demo" on the desktop.
4. Once the installer has finished downloading and installing the demo, start the "Terminal" app, which lives under Applications -> Utilities -> Terminal
5. In the Terminal app window type:
cd "Desktop/X-Plane 10 Demo"
(Note that punctuation and case are important).
6. Still in the Terminal app window start the test by typing:
./X-Plane.app/Contents/MacOS/X-Plane --fps_test=1 --load_smo=Output/replays/test_flight_c4.fdr
(If X-Plane complains about uncalibrated joysticks, just answer "No").
7. When X-Plane has finished the test, in Finder navigate to Desktop -> X-Plane 10 Demo and double-click on the file Log.txt to open it in TextEdit.
8. In TextEdit, search for the word framerate, and record what the line says and the following line, which will be something like:
FRAMERATE TEST: time=23.5, frames=6686, fps=284.30
GPU LOAD: time=82.3, wait=25.1, load=30.5%
9. Close Log.txt.
10. Repeat steps 6 to 9 with --fps_test=2 and --fps_test=3.
11. If the tester is feeling especially helpful, repeat steps 6 to 10 with --load_smo=Output/replays/test_flight_747.fdr
Many thanks!
I keep hearing the opposite. I like Windows 7 and never upgraded myself but constantly hear people say Windows 8.1 is faster than 7 on various things. Also, not sure Windows 7 is supported on the nMP ??
I've read elsewhere that only Windows 8.1 is supported by bootcamp.
But this has to be hackable in some plist or something.
I cannot think of a single technical reason why 7 sp1 would be any different to mount than 8.1. From a technical point of view they are nearly identical. They both support the same kinds of boot volumes, loaders etc.
I'm guessing there is some sort of bug going on with LuxMark? The second D500 is reporting 150MHz vs 725MHz. That GPU actually scores a little better than the other, so I'm concluding it must be a bug and not a throttle related issue.
Windows 8.1 is fantastic! Its all a similar kernel.
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That's why I did that test. I noticed the odd speed rating but it seems to be a bug.
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It's annoying what the nMP bootcamp doesn't support Win 7 as I afraid some of my softwares might have compatibility issues
I've never once run into an issue with incompatible software for windows 8.
It's essentially the exact same kernel as windows 7 and is often recognized as windows 7 by older software.
I'm running software designed for rapid prototyping in windows xp on it with no issues.
Not running Windows XP.
Using compatibility mode and tricking the software. Though most of the time, to be honest, it all seems to run without a hitch.
I've a Versalaser running great off of windows 8 and their drivers are windows xp.
Basically I've not had a single application that was written for Windows 7 have ANY issue with Windows 8.
Good for you, sadly mine was written for Win XP in mind, and you can't even install it in Win 7 (had to run it in Win XP mode which Win 8 doesn't have, but I read it's possible to install it via virtual box)