I have tested Vue 4 Pro with a lot of PC configurations. I use the "WaterGate" scene from P.Merminod (it uses only standard elements, no add-on plants). Here are some results with Vue 4 Pro 4.54-02, build 270996. Render settings : final, render to screen, 1024 x 611, 72 DPI. All PC run Windows XP Pro. Athlon XP 1800+, 768 MB : 36 mn 25 Athlon XP 2400+, 512 MB : 28 mn 08 Dual Athlon MP 1800+, 512 MB : 21 mn 20 Pentium 4-3300 Mhz, 1 GB : 22 mn 20 Dual Xeon 2800 Mhz, 1 GB : 14 mn 00 10-CPUs renderfarm : 4 mn 30 (1 Dual Xeon 2800 + 2 x Pentium 4-3300 + 1 Dual Athlon MP1800 + 1 x Athlon XP2400 + 2 x Athlon XP1800 + 1 x Duron 1667 Mhz). Hyperthreading is very helpful for Vue 4 Pro.

Whoa! Great data, louguet! And in a format that has all the essentials and is quick to read. Thank you!

Just did a quick test to see what my result would be on my p4, it's interesting, even though you have double the ram and a little more in the processor speed in your p4 mine only came out a little over a minute longer than yours.

Watergate
-1024 x 611 Final Render Settings (72 dpi)
-Vue 4 Professional on a HP workstation xw4100 (3.0 ghz) Pentium 4 Processor 512mb RAM, Hyperthreading Enabled, Windows XP Professional
-23 minutes 53 seconds

Message edited on: 08/19/2004 11:23

nanotyrannus, apparently the WaterGate scene does not use a lot of ram so it is logical that there is no difference between 512 MB and 1 GB. One must also make sure that the same build (270996) of Vue 4 Pro is used, sometimes there are differences in render times between builds. Now it would be interesting to see some results on PowerMacs and Athlon 64 / Opteron.

I'm using an older build (v4.52-02 bld 268493) as I'm a firm believer in the old saying "if it isn't broken, don't fix it" as that was the last update I needed to make I haven't updated to a newer one since then.

I understand :) I needed the latest build because it solved a lot of problems with network rendering (RenderCow was broken in the previous builds).

That is the problem with benchmarks...everyone wants to do their own scene... ;) Watergate -1024 x 611 Final Render Settings (72 dpi) -Vue 4 Professional build 270996 on 3.0 ghz Pentium 4 prescott processor 1 gb RAM, Hyperthreading Enabled, Windows XP Professional -24 minutes 48 seconds The P4 is in a Shuttle SB6IG2 cube computer with an eVGA Gforce 5700 ultra AGP video card.

where is this water gate file? I don't have Pro but if it uses standard items I should have everything with D' esprit right?

It is on disc 2 of the pro set. Not sure if it is compatible with regular vue because I only have pro...

It is not available for Vue 4 Esprit, I already checked this morning when I saw this thread, which is why I only posted the pro results for this one.

well that's not fair :( boo hoo :)

I know, the sample scenes that come with Pro are way better than the ones with Esprit. Oh well :)

If you pay close attention to these figures, it shows that Vue is having a hard time with Pentiums. Notice louguet's times between the 3 gig P4 and the XP 2400. That's just way too close for machines with such differences. louguet, if you have a chance, can you post your chipset and bus/ram speeds for you XP 2400 and 3 gig P4? Does anyone have an XP 3200 machine running on a 400 meg dual channel buss? I bet any amount of money that system would eat the 3 gig P4. There's just something that's not right with Vue and the P4 systems. What's not certain is whether it's a CPU issue, a chipset issue, or both. I should add that all the other software I've tested so far show significant speed gains on my 3.2 gig Prescott system with 2 gigs of ram, as of course they should.

Vue has always been faster on AMD than on Intel. It uses raw floating-point calculations that are more efficiently handled by the Athlon XP architecture. With Vue 4 Pro, hyperthreading helps, but still the P4 is not terribly impressive.

As for my XP2400, it has nothing out of the ordinary : 2 Ghz, Epox EP-8RGA+ motherboard, NVidia nForce 2 IGP chipset, FSB 266 (2x133), 512 MB of CAS2.5 memory (2.5-3-3-6 timings).

I re-ran the benchmark today on an overclocked - but perfectly stable - 2.4Ghz P4C (the famous M0 stepping) running at 3300 Mhz, with Abit IC7-Max 3 motherboard, i875P chipset, FSB 1100 Mhz (4x275), 220 Mhz memory bus (5:4 ratio) with 1 GB of CAS2 Corsair XMS3500 (2-3-2-5 timings). Vue4 Pro bench : 21 mn 03 s, so about the same as a Dual Athlon MP1800+ (2 x 1533 Mhz).

Now I am curious about the results on an Athlon 64.

i want to see the mac benchmarks they call them power pc's right, see if they live up to that expectation lol.

well I'd love to ... but I can't afford Pro... so we'll have to use a file the D' Esprit can use for a Mac compare.

Vue has always been faster on AMD than on Intel. It uses raw floating-point calculations that are more efficiently handled by the Athlon XP architecture. With Vue 4 Pro, hyperthreading helps, but still the P4 is not terribly impressive.<< True, but so far this applies only to Vue. Everything else I've tested smokes my Athlon system, as I expected it to. As I said elsewhere, I wouldn't be surprised if an XP 3200 with a 400 FSB eats my P4 Vue times. The bottom line is that if Vue is you primary modeler, then stay FAR away from Pentiums.

Athlon 64 FX53 (2.4GHz), 2GB RAM, XP Pro, VUE PRO 4.53-02 Watergate test - 19' 35" -- Mark