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[Max] General Discussion / Re: Corona Alpha4 Benchmark scene

« on: 2014-10-23, 16:03:13 »

very nice!
so in this moment
5960x (@4.4) = 2 min 14 sec
5820k (@4.4) = 2 min 58 sec

Please remember the benchmark scene is not accurate.
I do hope that with 1.0 we finally get a new one :P

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[Max] General Discussion / Re: Corona render speed

« on: 2014-10-03, 09:43:03 »

im currently using the i7 3.45ghz

Please specify which i7 model you have exactly. Going from 6 core to 8 core might not be much improvement. But if you have a 4 core i7, especially the older ones, that 8 core can double the speed of your renders.

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General CG Discussion / Re: Hi any one here using i7 4790k

« on: 2014-08-06, 10:37:16 »

Before advising please be aware he is asking about s1150 processor, not the s2011 4930k :P

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Hardware / Re: Corona - Titan black SLI or Titan Z?

« on: 2014-07-01, 16:46:45 »

i7-4930k for Cpu (the i7-4960x is just stupidly expensive, but they both OC about the same).
Asus P9X79-E WS, Rampage IV BE (lower end Asus boards might get too hot for 24/7 rendering under OC) or MSI X79A-GD45 PLUS and MSI X79A-GD65 (8D) (cheaper, and much cooler, but less expansion). Just be sure the boards come with latest Bios, or they might not boot with 4930k.
For 3ds Max Quadro is a waste of money, 760 for viewport is enough. So basically get anything you can afford after all the other parts.
Other parts look fine mostly. Do some research the coolers, I think they just release Kraken X61.

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News / Re: Sample interior scene

« on: 2014-06-30, 14:56:04 »

Finally a way to check the actual performance difference for various CPU's! Thank you very much! ^_^

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[Max] General Discussion / Re: Corona Alpha4 Benchmark scene

« on: 2013-09-02, 10:02:42 »

Jann, what xeon system do you have ? I really need to buy few new systems, and I originally wanted 2x2687, but I see many people have some trouble with performance scaling with double socket, at which case, I would just buy few new 4930k, but I would not be so happy about that...

What performance gain do you get in "real scene" ? Thank you much in case of answer :- )

Nakama's result is utterly depressing to see double top xeons perform only as good as single 3930k, while the result should be 2.5x higher. Maybe it is only the benchmark setup, but I would like to see the performance scale decently equal in all situations..

I have dual E5-2660 ES xeons in Z9PE-D8 WS board with 64Gb ram. On A4 benchmark they get 3.59 - about the same as overclocked 2700k@4.2Ghz we tested. In real scenes using A5 the xeons got 2-3 times better results than OC'd 2700k. So I suspect that A4 code just didn't scale as well as A5 does :)
If you're looking at retail xeons, 3930k or 4930k is definitely a better price/performance option. If you feel adventurous to get some ES cpus, then 2687w C0 could be a good investment. Or wait for the new Ivy gen xeon range with 10 and 12 cores and get ES of those :D

If anyone has some top of the line dualsocket machine and some time, please add me on skype, I'd like to do some testing ;)

You can find me on skype by ragsjv :)

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[Max] General Discussion / Re: Corona Alpha4 Benchmark scene

« on: 2013-08-30, 14:01:32 »

Could someone please update this to Alpha 5?
Seems like A4 on which this is based doesn't work correctly on dual Xeon systems.
With A4 base, it doesn't show the speed increase you get in real life comparing to a quad i7 system.