How Fast are YOU??? SunPoolCaustics Challenge

bradleyabbott82 · **Joined:** Thu Mar 22, 2012 8:05 pm **Posts:** 252

EDIT UPDATE: FOR THE SAKE OF CLARITY: THIS IS NOT TO SUGGEST THAT YOU NEED A RENDERFARM FOR RENDERING WITH THEA - THE INTENTION IS TO ALLOW USERS TO SEE THE RAW POWER THEY COULD MAKE USE OF IF THEY NEED EXTREME SPEED IN CLEARING THEIR SCENES. Professional Users with deadlines could make use of this service to render 10 views of a scene to provide to their customers - IN THE SAME TIME THEY WOULD NORMALLY PRODUCE ONLY 1!!! Thea is an extremely fast engine with features offered and efficiency comparable to Engines costing MANY TIMES MORE!!! Please read this post with the idea in mind that we are only providing a "test render" for comparing HOW LONG it would take your machine to achieve a s/p (samples per pixel) level of 2000. Samples per pixel related to the relative clarity (in terms of light sampled per pixel) in a rendered image. There is a wikipedia article describing this metric here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pixel

I'd love to see some comparisons from other users of Thea - So I ran a test with my renderfarm on the SunPoolCaustics example scene. The only change I made to ANYTHING in the standard scene was to set SuperSampling to "HIGH". I've attached a compilation of the times over the course of 2 hours.

To Participate (so we can all get an idea of the speed at which this scene converges and compare it against specific hardware configurations),

Please open the Scene (located in the file->scenes->examples->sunpoolcaustics), set supersampling to "high" and set max samples to 2000. I hit this (actually a bit over 2012) in 1:53:00 ...

POST YOUR MACHINE SPEC, TIME TO RENDER TO 2000s/p, and a screenshot!

Good Luck - I'm VERY curious to see the variety of speeds out there!

Bradley

GreenUser · **Joined:** Sat Apr 24, 2010 8:09 am **Posts:** 642

This is actually a pretty bad benchmark for Thea's speed. People generally don't want to have their computer running that long for a benchmark. I have been working on a benchmark scene and it is hard to get something that looks really good and shows off a lot of Thea's features that other render engines have trouble doing. Plus when making it everything has to be done from scratch.

CADharsis · **Posted:** Mon Apr 16, 2012 10:01 am

2000 s/p will propably render about 6h 15 min on i7 3930k

because: 1pass needs 2min 15sec and renders about 12s/p

i don`t want to wait that time

christrapeze · **Posted:** Mon Apr 16, 2012 10:56 am

(edit) sorry its s/p, i thought passes at first
it took 45 seconds to do 1 s/p
ha ha i jus worked out how lmany hours on my lappy, and the pic says it all,

dbalex · **Joined:** Tue Apr 27, 2010 6:52 pm **Posts:** 891

CADharsis wrote:

i don`t want to wait that time

Yes, that's also a bit what I was thinking. Your benchmark is good for testing network rendering but for one computer it's too long.

giannis · **Posted:** Mon Apr 16, 2012 1:37 pm

just giving my idea on this, a comparison can be made either by matching s/p OR time. So, it is not necessary to reach 2000 s/p but similar time and compare then s/p. Comparison results are analogous.

Other than that, this thread belongs perhaps better to another forum (new one perhaps or corner bar).

Greetings

hammer · **Posted:** Mon Apr 16, 2012 3:36 pm

Sorry for the question but what is s/p ?

bradleyabbott82 · **Joined:** Thu Mar 22, 2012 8:05 pm **Posts:** 252

Perhaps I wasn't clear,

Thea is EXTEREMLY fast as a rendering Engine (I've worked with several testing SPECIFICALLY for speed). I ran the test for this period of time because I'm developing a Thea-Render Based Commercial RenderFarm. I only ran the model for 2000 s/p because it is a non-machine-specific metric that all users can measure their speed against. This was specifically to highlight the speed of the RenderFarm Im developing.

At the moment, the RenderFarm is running at only 33% of its node capacity, therefore this would have cleared 2000 s/p in only 30 MINUTES!!! However, as you can see from the image attached, I achieved measurable clarity in only 1 commit (20 minutes) - thus testifying to the speed of Thea in-and-of-itself!

Bradley

bradleyabbott82 · **Joined:** Thu Mar 22, 2012 8:05 pm **Posts:** 252

dbalex wrote:

CADharsis wrote:

i don`t want to wait that time

Yes, that's also a bit what I was thinking. Your benchmark is good for testing network rendering but for one computer it's too long.

I posted this only to allow users to compare their SINGLE machine against a RenderFarm - thus highlighting the VALUE of a RenderFarm. The scene had converged to usable clarity in only about 15 minutes on a single machine.

CADharsis · **Posted:** Mon Apr 16, 2012 6:11 pm

Quote:

EDIT UPDATE: FOR THE SAKE OF CLARITY: THIS IS NOT TO SUGGEST THAT YOU NEED A RENDERFARM FOR RENDERING WITH THEA - THE INTENTION IS TO ALLOW USERS TO SEE THE RAW POWER THEY COULD MAKE USE OF IF THEY NEED EXTREME SPEED IN CLEARING THEIR SCENES. Professional Users with deadlines could make use of this service to render 10 views of a scene to provide to their customers - IN THE SAME TIME THEY WOULD NORMALLY PRODUCE ONLY 1!!! Thea is an extremely fast engine with features offered and efficiency comparable to Engines costing MANY TIMES MORE!!! Please read this post with the idea in mind that we are only providing a "test render" for comparing HOW LONG it would take your machine to achieve a s/p (samples per pixel) level of 2000. Samples per pixel related to the relative clarity (in terms of light sampled per pixel) in a rendered image. There is a wikipedia article describing this metric here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pixel

so, whats your point?
should we all use your Renderfarm?........ then make an offer!

otherwise: have fun with your "RAW POWER YOU COULD MAKE USE OF IF YOU NEED EXTREME SPEED IN CLEARING YOUR SCENES." !

How Fast are YOU??? SunPoolCaustics Challenge

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