Carrara 5 render benchmarks? I would like to see how different peoples System and CPUs would handle a Carrara 5 scene. So that I can see what kind of render time my comp gets compared to others. This will help me figure out what to do my next upcoming system upgrade. Is there a benchmark list Carrara 5 somewhere online?

Render one of the preset scenes and everyone can follow suite;)

For the benchmark file I chose the file named Caustic because that's on the demo as well as full version. It's located at Scenes then Global illumination. All default setting, I opened the file and changed nothing and hit render button(not render in new window).
My time 18 seconds.

Carrara 5 Pro
CPU: Athlon 2600+
MEM: 1.5 gig ddr 400
Mobo: Gigabyte GA-7VA
Graphics Card (not that it makes a difference) Matrox Millinium G450

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Please everyone no matter what system configuation you have, use the file named Caustic because that's on the C5 PRO demo to test your time and post the info here so we can all benifit. Any one out there got a AMD 64 X2 Dualcore CPU in their machine? I'd really like to see what the render time is for the: AMD 64 X2,4400+,4600+ and 4800+ Dualcore CPUs out there. I'm considering getting the 4400+ because it looks like it's doing well with Zbrush and Vue 5I benchmarks. Thanks

Carrara 5 Pro CPU: 3.0GHz Pentium 4 Northwood MEM: 1.5GB DDR 400 Mobo: Asus P4S8000D-E Graphics: Radeon 9600XT Time 16 seconds

CPU: AMD 2800 MEM: 1GB DDR (Dual channel) Mobo: ASUS A7N8X2 Deluxe Graphics: All-in-wonder 128 Pro AGP Time 19s

For a laugh:) AMD 1100 Duron 256 SD133 GF4-420 64mb Time: 47s flat:) This is my net PC, I'll have a go on my other machine when I install the demo on it.

Carrara 5 Pro CPU: P4 2.0 RAM: 1GB (PC2100) MOBO: ASUS P4B533-e Graphics: ATI Radeon P9800 pro (128Mb) Win2K Pro (SP4) Time: 27s

I do have a 64 bit dual core 4400+ in storage. I won't have it out for a couple of weeks. Sorry, -Kix

Carrara 5 Pro CPU: Mac Dual2.5 Ram: 2.5G Graphics: GeForce 6800 Ultra Time: 14 sec Mark

Carrara 5 Pro CPU: Dual Xeon 3.2GHz Ram: 2 GB Graphics: Nvidia Quadro FX3400 Time: 11 sec BTW i think this scene is a little too simple for benchmarking. Francois

Carrara 5 Pro CPU: Athlon64 X2 4800+ MEM: 2GB PC3200 DDR SDRAM Graphics: Asus Extreme N7800GT (256MB) Time 8 seconds

Carrara 5 Pro Win XP Pro Athlon AMD 1800 (1536 MHz) 768 MB RAM ASUS A7N266-VM Mobo (onboard NVidia graphics) Time: 27 seconds

carrara 5 Pro Dual Mac 1.8 (first generation with 8 ram slots, faster bus)
2 gig
ATI9800 256 ram

time: 15secs

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Carrara 5.02 Pro Windows XP Pro SP2 Acer Pentium 4 3.Ghz Laptop 1G RAM NVidia GeForce FX Go5700 16 seconds

Carrara 5 Pro CPU: Athlon64 X2 3800+ (overclocked to 2200mhz) MEM: 2GB PC3200 DDR SDRAM Graphics: nvidia 6600 Time 9 seconds amd 3800 great chip with dual core... can be overlocked... also not very expensive...I think dual core is a must if you're working with carrara.. cuts render times in half

I'd love to get a spec on Apple's quad... anyone got one?

C5 Pro XP Pro CPU: Intel P4, 2.6 MHz (Northwood) MB: Asus P4P800 Deluxe (no turbo or overclock) Memory: 1Gig (PC3500 DDR) Video Adapter: ASUS A9600XT (128 MB)(no turbo or overclock) 18 sec. I would say Athlon64 X2 is definitely doing well.

C5 Std XP Home CPU: AMD 64, 3200+ Compaq Laptop Ram: 768mb Video: ATI Radeon 200m 15 sec. Not bad for a laptop.

C5 Pro XP Home CPU: P4 2.8C Northwood Ram: 1 Gig 3200 Mobo: Abit IC7 Video: 6800GT 17 Sec

C5 Pro (Demo)
XP Pro
CPU: Dual AMD Athlon 2000+ MP
Mobo: Asus (don't remember model)
Ram: 2Gb
Video: Nvidia Quadro4 750XGL
14 Sec

Not bad for a 3.5 year old machine!

WinXP
A-Bit PIII-1000MHz
1GB PC133 RAM 44 seconds.

Had to test the laptop too.

C5 Pro (Demo)
XP Home
CPU: P4M 2.2GHz
Toshiba Satellite
Ram: 1Gb
Video: Nvidia GeForce4 460Go
25 Sec

C5 Pro (demo) full package on order xp pro CPU AMD 64 3200 Venice Core MSI K8N NEO 4 MB Nvivia Geforce Fx 5500 Ram 2GB 15 sec

Well No ones been able to post results for the AMD 64 X2,4400+ But frome other results X2 results. I'm guessing it's gonna be 8 or 9 sec. So Kixum, when get yours out of storage, please put the results here. While I'm guessing I think that if someone post the results for a 2 processor dualcore opeteron setup, it's gonna be 6 or 7 sec, same for Apple's quad. As this thread goes off the first page Anyone think this thread is worthy of a backroom link? Kixum?

Hi Shonner Start a new thread Maybe Called Benchmarks 2. Pick one, render it, post the results. I'll try it. I just picked one that I remembered was on demo for sure. But a longer more copmplex render would be better, especialy when people start posting opterons and such.

XP Media C5Pro Dual Core P4 830 (3.0) GHz 12 Sec. XP Pro P4 @ 3.6 Ghz 13 sec. Need a bit more complex scene to get good comps.

work pc c5 pro dual processor p4(2x3.0ghz) 2gb ram ati 9800 xt 14sec. will post 3800x2 non-overclocked tonight at home.

I've actually built a simple scene as a benchmark that runs for over a minute. I just have the render settings turned way up. I was kicking around the idea of building a web page for the backroom which could be added to as people posted. I think it's more important to have a render which takes a while because it can smooth out irregularities and also be "worthy" to test systems for a long time. Irregularities means (my definition strictly) that some computers perform little tasks or page memory or do things that interfere with the render. If you have a long render and perform it a few times, you can get a better idea of how well your machine is performing. If the test takes a long time (minutes), it can also be used for a while to compare to older machines. This scene in this thread is already being crushed down to 8 seconds. I personally believe this is already too short. What happense when we get it down to 2 seconds? It's just not long enough to really know how things are comparing. 170 seconds versus 125 seconds is a little more telling (not a ton but a little). I'm getting ready to open the final boxes from my move this weekend. I'll see what I can do. -Kix

Sounds Great.I'll keep my eyes open to see if or when the test file is available for download. Thanks

I started the same thread at the Yahoo Carrara group to see if I could get the results for the AMD 64 X2,4400+ and someone there had one running. They did and it came in at 9 seconds:) Thus my quest is fulfilled. Now What?

Just buy the fastest CPU you can afford.

Tyan makes a mobo that can hold 4 dualcore opteron 800 series processors That's 8 cores. Afford is such a relitive term. I could afford a system like that if I sold my car and sombody elses car that has a better car than mine ;}

Yeah...relative ;)

Do anyone think that quad X dualcore opteron 800s would cut render time to less than a sec then it probably is worth to buy it.

Hmmm...methinks Win XP Pro can only multithread 4 cores. Have to get server software to use all 8 cores.

WinXP Professional DELL P4-2.26GHz 1GB 333 DDR RAM 25 seconds.