Attached Link: http://www.gauchito.com/bryce/render_times/

sounds interesting, i think ill give it a whirl.

Aye, I like that benchmark, too, but it's old and all of our PC's smoke the ones posted. Even "our" Macs! Also, it doesn't really flex Bryce's renderer much... I'll post my screenshot when I get home!

Forgot to mention my machine speces--it's a P4, 2.2GHz, 1 GB RAM, running Bryce5 on WinXP Home. Shadow, I realize it's an old and relatively simple file. At least that way, we won't be rendering something for hours on end :) This way, it's quick and easy to do.

yeah, I guess specs would be nice ;) Athlon XP 1900+ 1152M RAM on XP home and Bryce 5

P4 2.25, 512 Rambus memory, Win2k.

I didnt gain much on render to disk at... 3:45.

I just tried render to disk and got 3:13, so it saved about 10 seconds...

Curious: what are the render perameters? Regular w/ antialias, B5 w/rpp?

whoah, look at those times on that page, the bottom ones are in the hours! I got 3:14 at the regular render, and 3:03 on render to disk. WinXP, 512 ram, Pentium 4 2.66 Ghz. Just out of curiosity though, what do you plan to do with all these times?

Nukeboy.... Just open the file in Bryce5 and render.

HP Pavillion laptop; 512 Ram; 1.65 gHz processor..

06:21 using a PIII-1000Mhz 512MB Windows98SE system.

Gol darn you som bich, Swade... "I feel the need for speed..."

Lol @ Nukeboy.

ye dogs FLak, what sort of machine are you using. I thought mine was slow at present, and I got 3:44 on an athlon 1.7 with 512 of pc133 ram.

3:28 on P4 2.4ghz 512mb ram laptop while doing other stuff.

Uurrghhh, Laptop (600M pIII, Win 2k) does 11 min. Network render with laptop and a twin 1 gig pIII still 5 min! Oh well that's what you get with 3 year old machinery

3:17 Bryce 5.1, AMD Athlon 2000+xp(=2.0 GHz, labeled 1.67), 512 MB RAM, Win 2000 Pro

I'll try this out on Ol' Reliable, my trusty o/clocked 450M pII tonight, I'll report in a few days when it's finished rendering :-)

my computer renders in 1:45 and then takes 5 minutes to anti-alias :/ Premium rendering is faster.

great thread! this is fun , thanks

Well, Haloedrain, the only reason to benchmark stuff is to get an idea of which hardware configurations are the most time-profitable for us... In this case, until people with Macs start posting, anyway, Johnny's Athlon 2200 takes the cake. The factors involved, as far as I understand it, are : Processor speed RAM amount FSB speed HD speed (NOT capacity) When the Render Time (Rt) equals 1/60th of a second, we will have realtime rendering. That's when all of our old Bryce scenes become gold, in terms of the video-game industry and of course the imaging and virtual reality industries. Processors need be a mere 200 times faster or so to accomplish this, which seems ludicrous, but then again, when the Commodore 64 came out at a whopping 1 MHz processor speed, who would have thought we'd be pulling GHz so soon, and for so cheap? Also, financially... The fastest renderers are also, to invert some obnoxious Law of Money for once, the cheapest! Some people stand by Intel, but alas... Let's see some Mac render times? ANYONE?!?!? (grins)

This was done on my 4 year old Power PC G4 - 533 MHz.

At first, I thought it was shame making but when I did the sums, things did not look so bleak.

I am going to skip a generation and see what G6 has to offer.

Speaking as a visual person! why do we never talk about monitors? I sometimes wonder if folks are seeing my images in quite the same way as I am? It has been said a few times of my work that things "look a bit dark". I have a LACIE ELECTRON 22 Blue which shows everything in the most splendid colours and definition, the clarity is startling, even with what I perceive to be colouristicaly dull images.

Seeing as Brendan McSherry has laid his Power PC Cyber Testicals on the table for every one to see! ....show me your Monitors, speed and size of chip ain't everything!

3:42 on XP Home, Bryce 5, 2.4ghz P4 Presario 1525 Laptop, 512 ram. I shut down as much as I could but still had a lot of TSR running. THis shows various things. I'm jealous of Swade and jonhnyf And feel sorry for JC_01. I'll be upgrading my laptop soon then.

Brendan :Speaking as a visual person! why do we never talk about monitors? That's sort of why I started all this before,because I have this new Sony S73 LCD Monitor, and was kind of discouraged comparing it to my other Samsung 171s also LCD that I have,which looked washed out almost.Soooo.I made the guy who owns the PC company a website and he gave me another new Sony.Now side by side,I know it is the video card. The Samsung is still in my opinion not quite as good because the blacks on sony are real black,and white is real white. I tweak from defaults a bit on reds ,and contrast,but thats about it. Now if someone can tell me what is real green.LOL

Chohole - thats my pIII 450 with its 320 MB of ram.. the one I use for all my 3d stuff..... one day I'll get a new PC... Though, must admit, I'm dying to know what JC_01 is using.

Actually guys I gave you the wrong specs. My comp was originally an Athlon 2200+ XP and it went back(endless problems) and as part of the compensation for the expense I had they upgraded it to a 2400+ XP which is 2Ghz!

Oh, I forgot that I was downloading 115MB resource pack at the time...that usually slows things down somewhat..

Funny, but I wonder where the other 8 million intersect attempts went in the Bryce 4 render? I'll post an Athlon one when I get home...

3:13 to screen 3:03 to disk athlon xp2000, 512 ddr ram, 7200rpm hd, win2000pro

i'll post mine laters cuz im rendering now two works at a time.. so more one should give some problems to my Celeron 700mhz 320mbram.. lol.. laugh laugh... but it works fine but takes fuckin time to render shit... eheh

Hi Amethyss, thankfully my sister, who is a printmaker, looks after the calibrations, even though the LACIE came with it's own elaborate software, the scanner and monitor have to be brought into line for consistent results from screen to print. As for the perfect green!, dangle a ring necked parakeet in front of the screen and tune untill the bird dissapears against the background, remember to cover the keyboard, as this is often a messy process. I wonder if any one here has experimented with rendering in different colour profiles from the default in Bryce? One to look into!

Attached Link: http://bryce-alive.net/calibrate/

Aye, that's horrible, I have Colorific and have stood by it for years! Maybe it's the stupid name they chose, or their underpowered website that killed them...