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hi,
i'm interested to see what kind of hardware configuration is optimal for radiosity processing in viz4. i created a simple scene. it is available here. could you download it, run the radiosity solution up to 96% and post the time it took as well as the specs of the hardware you used? please read the time used for the solution from the statistics roll-out in the radiosity panel. thanks! my trusty old dual-pentium3-boxes came up with the following results. computer A: CPU: 1000MHz Pentium III number of CPUs: 2 RAM: 1024MB motherboard: MSI 694D time: 13minutes, 28seconds ----------------------------- computer B: CPU: 800MHz Pentium III number of CPUs: 2 RAM: 1024MB motherboard: MSI 694D time: 17minutes, 15seconds [ May 24, 2002, 11:42 AM: Message edited by: adrian_dav ] |
    
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computer A using only 1 CPU:
CPU: 1000MHz Pentium III number of CPUs: 1 (second CPU disabled in taskmanager) RAM: 1024MB motherboard: MSI 694D time: 24minutes, 36seconds ----------------------------- computer B using only 1 CPU: CPU: 800MHz Pentium III number of CPUs: 1 (second CPU disabled in taskmanager) RAM: 1024MB motherboard: MSI 694D time: 31minutes, 14seconds |
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Pentium 1.8A Northwood
WinBlows 98 SE Viz 4 Asus P4B266-C 512 megs of PC3000 Mushkin DDR. Memory settings to 2-2-2 and 4 way interleaving Geforce 4 Ti 4400 (Software heidi used) 17 Minutes 59 Seconds I'm not entirely sure if I did this correctly, so I'll be running it again. I think I just rendered in which case its the radiosity + the render itself. So now I'm just using the radiosity panel to compute the time. |
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very very impressive speed. the rendering should have added something like 20 seconds. it seems that radiosity just scales well with the MHz and doesn't use the FPU-heavy features that are very strong on the athlon. you might be rightin the other thread and i'm fine with just 2 xeons. thanks for running the solution. |
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Note that the 1800+ XP (a 1.53 Gigahertz Athlon) Beats the 1.8A Northwood in this particular test.
Even with the Pentium IV's almost 300 megahertz speed advantage, I think the powerful FPU of the Athlon is still dominating, making it the superior choice over the Pentium IV based systems. I'm curious to see if anyone has a Dual Tualatin system to benchmark. |
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Windows XP Pro Viz 4 IWILL XP-333-R rev 2.1 768 megs of PC3000 OCZ DDR. Elsa Gloria III (Quadro II) (Software Maxtreme used) Radiosity time: 15 Minutes 16 Seconds Render Time: 0 Minutes 12 Seconds [img]Graemlin/biggrin2.gif[/img] [ May 24, 2002, 11:44 PM: Message edited by: CHE ] |
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These results alre realy shocking me!
I'm going to buy myself a new PC this summer, and I allways thought that for stuff like VIZ4 I deffinately needed to go for the Intel Pentium IV ! But it seems that AMD is the better choice. And with AMD I can maybe afford a dual CPU system  |
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