How much faster does poser pro 2010 render over poser 8?

I have them both, and general render speed is the same.  They are both Poser 8 (regular is 8.0.3.11793 and Pro 2010 is 8.0.3.11916)

Poser Pro has a number of work flow tools that P8 does not have

It depends on whether you're using 64 bit or not. PP2010 is 32 bit and 64 bit (you install for what your OS is) and P8 32 bit. PP2010 64bit is faster than PP2010 32 bit and P8 32 bit, but I guess it's only around 15-25% faster.

I have both on a 64 bit machine and pro 2010 is about 40% faster than 8 but when I have 32 bit there was no difference. Also when I have 4 gigs of ram on 64 bit it was about 20% faster, now with 8 gigs its about 40%. I hope that helps.

 OK , I hope to build a new animation set up based on Poser , what Mac computer would I  purchase to run fast and smooth rendering.
How many bit / memory / any ideas.
I am using Poser 8 Poser2010.
Thanks Guys

Quote -  OK , I hope to build a new animation set up based on Poser , what Mac computer would I  purchase to run fast and smooth rendering.

Look at the just-announced 8-core Macs. Buy one if you're very well off. Or you could get a similarly specced PC for considerably less, and if you opt to build your own PC, well, you could have a pair for the price of the Mac. One could be used for network rendering.

PP2010 32bit is slightly slower then P8, PP2010 64bit is slightly faster. There have been a few people that truly timed it and it was about 10% faster. It's very unlikely that you will gain over 25%.

We've had discussions about this before and when people guess the improvement (what most actually do) and after that truly time it with a stopwatch, the render speed is a lot less then what they've guessed.

If you buy PP2010 for faster rendering compared to P8, you will be disappointed. Smith Micro did an outstanding job on P8 and PP2010 is basically the same except for 64 bit, allowing you to use more RAM.

Quote -  OK , I hope to build a new animation set up based on Poser , what Mac computer would I  purchase to run fast and smooth rendering.
How many bit / memory / any ideas.
I am using Poser 8 Poser2010.
Thanks Guys

A couple of things to rember.  On the mac side of the house, only the renderer is 64-bit.  This means that while building a scene, you will be limited to 2GB per process.   Hopefully, the developers will get the code base moved to the 64-bit Cocoa libraries by the next iteration.

The renderer (FFRender) on the other hand seems to use as many cores and as much ram as you can throw at it.

The key is (as with all modern computing) Cores & Ram, Ram, and oh by the way, more Ram.

I will be replacing my 1st Gen Mac Pro with one of the new Mac Pros (12 core) for my birthday in Feb.   That is out of most peoples price range however ($5K or there abouts)  But 12 Cores (24 w/Hyperthreading), and up to 64GB of ram will future proof me.  (I work off a 5 year cycle)

If you can't afford a Mac Pro, I'd recommend the large iMac.  Just make sure you stuff as much ram in it as it will take.  1 caveat.  Don't buy ram from Apple. Get a reputable dealier on line and pay half of what apple charges.

Quote -  OK , I hope to build a new animation set up based on Poser , what Mac computer would I  purchase to run fast and smooth rendering.
How many bit / memory / any ideas.
I am using Poser 8 Poser2010.
Thanks Guys

Poser 7 runs quite quickly on my Macbook Pro or 24" iMac. Both of them are last year's model, both of them only have two cores and the Macbook Pro only has 2GB RAM. Just stay away from the white polycarbonate Macbook.

Has anyone done this recently?  

Sounds like it might be fun if one of you,- with the current toys, - once again organized a Poser “Speed Test” similar to the one done by Jim Burton in here years ago.   

He built a .PZ3 scene from Poser base figures & props, and posted it in FreeStuff  so everyone could use the same scene as a standard for comparing their own render speeds.

To see how it worked last time, the thread with his original test was here:

 http://www.renderosity.com/mod/forumpro/showthread.php?thread_id=584185&page=1

…and his test scene was reposted in FreeStuff, along with a compilation of results,  here:

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/freestuff/details.php?item_id=13763