Dell workstation is BALLS-slow!
Hey fellas!
I'm trying to figure out what's going on with my boss' new workstation as it's tracking VERY far behind our render farm for something that Dell charged us over $3k for four months ago. Significantly more in fact than our render servers cost us when we bought them six months before.
Our render farm is made up of dual processor Opteron 275s (four 2.2ghz cores per node) and 4GB of RAM.
The Dell workstation is a dual processor Xeon 5050 (four 3.0ghz cores) and 4GB of RAM.
Now here's the kicker -- I've got a scene I'm rendering which is a pretty intensive VRay scene, very high use of high-poly proxies, that I'm rendering without any GI. Our farm servers range between 20 and 30 minutes a frame, while this Dell workstation is taking 1 hour and 45 minutes a frame!
When we first got the machine, it was tracking about 20-25% slower than the render farm on one of our standard scenes with GI, but I can't understand this enormous slowdown. Does anyone have any suggestions why this expensive beast is so slow to render?
Thanks!
Shaun
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