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[C4D] General Discussion / Re: mac studio / mac pro m2 ultra

« on: 2023-07-05, 18:31:32 »

Yep - the main reason I sit here using the M1Max Macbook Pro for the majority of my Corona/C4D work is the lack of heat, noise and power draw from the wall. Makes such a huge difference in the current energy mess.

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[C4D] General Discussion / Re: mac studio / mac pro m2 ultra

« on: 2023-07-04, 16:57:42 »

Here's the score for the Ultra...

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[C4D] General Discussion / Re: mac studio / mac pro m2 ultra

« on: 2023-06-30, 09:59:28 »

I've asked someone I know to run it on theirs but they are away from their office right now - so sometime soon when he returns hopefully.

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[C4D] General Discussion / Re: mac studio / mac pro m2 ultra

« on: 2023-06-29, 22:56:33 »

@Philw
this would be cool! :oD my maxed out mac pro 12c, 3.46ghz, 128gb (2010) scores 2.3M r/s (osx mojave).
a 5x boost would be insane!!! :o)

Looking forward to some actual M2 ultra scores though so I don’t have to speculate…

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[C4D] General Discussion / Re: mac studio / mac pro m2 ultra

« on: 2023-06-29, 18:48:22 »

32 core 64 threads I meant

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[C4D] General Discussion / Re: mac studio / mac pro m2 ultra

« on: 2023-06-29, 07:57:20 »

Yep I would say it’s pretty decent - especially when my 64 core Threadripper is scoring about 15M with a massive amount of power being used from the wall. Cost of living crisis and all that! (Minus the price of an M2 Ultra, of course 😉)

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[C4D] General Discussion / Re: mac studio / mac pro m2 ultra

« on: 2023-06-28, 21:44:07 »

I would say its pretty linear so yes 2x

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[C4D] General Discussion / Re: mac studio / mac pro m2 ultra

« on: 2023-06-28, 19:57:42 »

I noticed that these higher results happened when fans were at 0rpm and high 95°C CPU. Once the CPU temp is lower due to fans at about 1500rpm then the scores aren't as good. So definitely related to some kind of throttling curve.

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[C4D] General Discussion / Re: mac studio / mac pro m2 ultra

« on: 2023-06-28, 19:34:02 »

Very changeable!

https://benchmark.chaos.com/corona/v10/scores/905

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[C4D] General Discussion / Re: mac studio / mac pro m2 ultra

« on: 2023-06-28, 15:19:33 »

Possibly - I did consider the housekeeping it does after an update. I'll try it again at some point once I can take a breath :-)

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[C4D] General Discussion / Re: mac studio / mac pro m2 ultra

« on: 2023-06-28, 11:20:50 »

Yep as far as I understand the CPU variability is "cleverness" due to being a laptop. The Studio is ok as far as I know (don't own one).

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[C4D] General Discussion / Re: mac studio / mac pro m2 ultra

« on: 2023-06-27, 18:20:45 »

Yep the new Benchmark is a Universal binary so as optimised as the renderer itself, I guess!

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[C4D] General Discussion / Re: mac studio / mac pro m2 ultra

« on: 2023-06-24, 16:41:50 »

I stupidly updated to 13.4.1 after publishing that benchmark and it dropped me by 1619013 rays/sec. Why Apple?

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[C4D] General Discussion / Re: mac studio / mac pro m2 ultra

« on: 2023-06-24, 16:05:42 »

The native benchmark is up - would be great to see some Ultra scores up there :-)

https://corona-renderer.com/benchmark

I've put my M1Max and Threadripper up there:
https://benchmark.chaos.com/corona/v10/scores/561
https://benchmark.chaos.com/corona/v10/scores/562

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[C4D] Daily Builds / Re: Latest RC build crashes M1Max

« on: 2023-06-20, 08:18:46 »

Hi Phil,

We just released RC3, can you test it once again and keep us posted? Also, I'm chatting with another Philip from SurfaceSPREAD about this so fingers crossed we reach a positive resolution :)

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/19tb9yglJGYu3Y_NBawOGClkoSE4R1wr7

Hi - I installed RC3 and now C4D launches ok with all the various plugins present! Thank you