Right now I have
Athlon xp 2600+ CPU
I may get an
Athlon 64 X2 3800+ Dual-Core
Duel core does not mean twice the speed but with the extra 1200mhz and duel core.
Do you think this might double my speed for a bryce render.
I cant find any bryce benchmark sites with recent info or active links. Any body have a duel core used with bryce?
What do you think about it?

Message edited on: 08/28/2005 22:30

I have a dual AMD myself. Bryce however is not a multi-threaded renderer as of yet. So it doesn't give you much of a speed increase over a single threaded core. However, The multithreaded renders do get quite a boost from it. I benchedmarked it with Cinebench and it showed 186% increase in rendering speed over a single core the same speed.

If you open it up twice(the scene) plop render top half then go to second and plop render that at the same time.Would that give you more speed?

Manually bucket render in other words. Should give you a speed increase. This would be best on big or complex scenes where the set up becomes a smaller portion of the job. - start the render normally - stop and save the scene - re-open scene in two independant bryce windows - plop top (or right) half in window one, bottom (or left) in window two. - save both when complete - composite in a photomanip app excellent idea wildman - just a thought, would lightning work?

Actually. I have ran two Bryces at the same time rendering the same scene and they both finish at the same time. I havn't tried doing two plops in one program yet though.

Does the plop render use the same settings as your main render. Example if your settings specify ultrafine will the plop render do ultra fine or does the plop just default to draft or normal?

Incarnadine with your idea would each window be using a differnt core in the cpu?

wildman - that does work - I've been doing it myself for a while now on largish scenes - ever since I got a hyperthreaded PC that had enough ram to have two bryce's open at once. Using this technique with a HT machine isn't as beneficial as having a dual core would be, but it still speeds things up from my experience.

Plop does whatever you set in render settings within it window (regardless of what you saved the original files settings as).
Cool Flak, thanks for the confirm. You might want to save the images files under different file names before closing either bryce window, just in case the second copy tries to overwrite the first.

Message edited on: 08/29/2005 19:19

i have a x2 4400 whcih is a beauty. Pity bryce 5.5 doesnt make full use of it but! Ive had up to 3 images rendering while working on a 4th. no problems there. i like ur idea wildman, ive tried all kinds of thing but i ll give that a try. One of the nice things about a dual core is that i can set one render job to a specifc core and set to "real time" priority in task manager. Before this would kill/freze the pc but not now. And this x2 overclock like a dream wthout any need for huge fans for cooling or nothing.

Attached Link: www.alexpensotti.com/bench.html

ddaydream, Im (still!) running and collecting bryce benchmarks in my site. nothing fancy but a good template of pc's. Amd rock of course as they are better at number crunching but an intel dual core might be better as they are cheaper?! and or you might have 4 "virtual" cores to play with. Just be carefull which on intel you buy, not all the new DC models have HTT.

on another note do remember when building a new pc is that photoshop CS2 is HTT, dual core enable. Someone over at overclockers.co.uk runs a benchmark using just a basic image and filters and on my normal old amd chip this took 2m.30s. Using the new dual core AMD, this was reduce to 45 seconds. Good when ur using lots of layers with different filters and tricks in postwork. ;>