2 GPU (285) – will the render be faster or only stereo render

[Sascha Haber]

Rocket for sure

A slice of color…

DaVinci 7.1 OSX 10.6.6
Dual Xeon 2,4 RAM 24 GB
RAID0 8TB eSata 6TB
GTX 285 / GT 120
Extreme 3D+ WAVE

[Darin Wooldridge]

The red rocket will help with the r3d debayer, but I don’t believe it will help with dpx to dpx.

2 285 should speed up the dpx render. I think..

You bring up a great point. Will 2 285’s help if your doing regular 2k dpx grading??

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[Margus Voll]

with dpx in some point io speed will also count.

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Margus

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[Darin Wooldridge]

Yes i/o is huge.. My question is with very fast sustained i/o.. Fibre or solid state.
Will the additional gpu power speed up renders or the same session with the same set up.

NOTE: The comments above are strictly mine, and may not necessarily
represent those of my employers.

Darin Wooldridge
Colorist / Technical Strategist
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dwooldridge@mac.com
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[Margus Voll]

I bet you get more nodes per shot? Not only 2 streams but lets say you have
one 2k stream and you can put about 30 nodes on that one.

So in theory lets say you use 10 nodes and render out you should get really huge speed.
To go really mad think about 4x 285 with two expanders.

But this is just my theory. BM could give some direction here 🙂

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[Peter Chamberlain]

Hi all, its all about balance and the work you do. You can put in three GPU’s for fast image processing, but if you have one disk, that’s going to be the limitation. Conversely, one GPU may not give you 10 nodes of 2K but the fibre channel Aurora from Rorke Data will definately will give you the 2K bandwidth with plenty to spare. If you have r3d, use a Red Rocket for full debayer at 2K in real time. Stereo r3d requires two Rockets. If you have a lot of QT files, CPU decoding and encoding speed will benefit from faster and more cores.
For those looking at tuning for high performance, consider one drive array as the source and another as the render destination. In this config, your drive controller can stick to one task. We know of Resolve colorists getting better than 100fps for SD dailies renders and at BMD post we render 2K faster than real time so clearly it’s not an application limitation. It’s just about configuring the system to meet your budget and operational needs.
Peter

[Mikhail Puzyrev]

I’ve made a test today – put geforce 480 alone (with 2 displays attached) into a hackintosh and got twice as fast debayer vs my 2008 Mac Pro with 285 and gt120.

[Sascha Haber]

Of course your Hackingtosh has a much faster CPU, right ?
480 does not debayer a thing, but its grading performance should be lovely too.

A slice of color…

DaVinci 7.1 OSX 10.6.6
Dual Xeon 2,4 RAM 24 GB
RAID0 8TB eSata 6TB
GTX 285 / GT 120
Extreme 3D+ WAVE

[Mikhail Puzyrev]

No, CPU is slower. I’ve tested it in many ways. Clipfinder is slower on my h-osh.

[Daniel Leite]

Hi Mikhail,

Can you share some specs on your H-sh system? (MB-CPU-Mem-Pci-e)

I have 2009 2.26 gt120/gtx285 and I’m not impressed with the perfomance so far.

THX

DL