AE CS6 11.0.1 CUDA BENCHMARK PROJECT – test your graphics cards!

[Greg Antons]

i7 860 @2.9ghz
16gb RAM
GTX 570 1.2gb, 480 cuda
6min 3sec to render

its interesting to see that some of the x80 cards arent performing as well as my 570. Anyone know why?

[Ian Mapleson]

It’s all to do with aggregate bandwidth per CUDA core and
other differences. See:

https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/geforce-gtx-760-review-gk104,3542-19.html

A 770 or 780 has lots of cores, but they don’t have
correspondingly higher bandwidth to feed them all.

Ian.

PS. Edit: I’ve been told by C. Angelini @ toms that the
shaders in the 580 run at twice the clock rate of the
later shaders used in 600/700 series cards, so that’s
another major factor for the strength of the 580. He
said NVIDIA switched to having a larger number of lower
clocked shaders because that made thermal issues easier
to deal with, but of course it means a newer card must
have a lot more shaders to beat a 580, which some do,
but then they don’t have the mem bw per core to match.
Must be a combination of these factors I suppose.

SGI Guru

[Andrei Chukin]

3930K @ 4666MHz
32Gb @ 1935MHz RAM
GTX680 Zotac (4Gb)OC’d

5min 58s

[John Hsu]

I ran this benchmark and got 6:30 min with multiprocessing on, but when I turned MP off it rendered in 3 sec, anybody know what’s going on?

Adobe After Effects CS6 (v11.0.0.378)
Intel i7-3770
3.4GHz
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570
4 core (8 virtual)
16 GB RAM
Windows 7

[Teddy Gage]

You didn’t clear the cache between renders, so it was just spitting out the previously cached frames. hence the 1 sec render. You’ll have to clear the disk cache and RAM to get a new test.

however MP is irrelevant for this test, as it is turned off when artisan (the raytraced renderer) is used. Those results are in line with your gpu

[John Hsu]

That’s great, thanks for the quick reply!

[Paul Forcier]

Thanks for starting this thread I have been very curious about cuda performance.

I got 4 min and 3 sec

EVGA SR-2 Xeon X2 at 2.4 OC to 3.4 with H80 water-cooling
48 Gig ram
480 SSD Boot drive with a 3-way Raid for writing files 600 gig each Velociraptors
2 256 gig ssd raid for a performance cache on a Apricorn Solo X2
1 128 GB for source files (have to do something with that)
1 128 Gb older cache drive
4 TB USB 3 drive for offloading data

GTX 690 Primary driving a 30″ Dell
GTX 670 Secondary driving two 20″ Dells for a PLP setup

Both cards have the same cuda compute level so they appear to both be recognized by AE CS6

[Ian Mapleson]

I’m intrigued by your mbd/CPU setup; what model XEONs do you
have on the board? How did you find the experience of oc’ing
them compared to normal boards? Any issues specific to working
with two XEONs? Also, is the RAM ECC, and at what speed is it
running? Nothing to do with CUDA of course, but your system is
similar to something I’ve been discussing with a friend.

Ian.

SGI Guru

[Paul Forcier]

Hi Ian, I’m using the Xeon e5645’s which were less expensive and easily overclocked, unlike the current generation of Xeon which are locked out in that regard.

After the seven stages of grief over the EOL of Final Cut Pro 7 I moved back to a PC from my 1st Gen Mac Pro…to the CS6 suite – I originally was on Premiere Pro before going to Mac several years ago so it wasn’t completely unfamiliar to me.

Anyhoo I did a great deal of research and found the enthusiast EVGA SR-2 board and investigated the overclock capabilities as well as those Xeon chips. Many have had great success overclocking to over 4 Ghz with even better chips of that generation like the 5690, though they were a great deal more expensive.

My system has been very stable with this OC and have had no issues. This effectively has given me 12 Cores at 3.4 Ghz easily and 24 threads with multi-threading.

I am using Kingston non ecc ram 12 X 4 GB for 48 total or 4 gb per CPU core. They are 1600s. I’d have to check to see how fast I have them running with the OC.

There are i7s out there with 6 cores that will provide a higher benchmark on the benchmark test, with a high OC well over 4 ghz,…my 12 core gives me great performance running multiple applications spread across the PLP setup.

I am considering adding another GTX 690 for SLI with some games for my kids (ok, maybe me too, such as Battlefield 3 which responds well with 4 way SLI on the two 690s) and add more cuda at the same compute level for After Effects CS6 in relation to the ray tracing….If I do this I will run the benchmark again and report in….

The short lived EVGA SR-X replaced the SR-2 but, no fault of EVGA, the compatible Xeons could no longer be overclocked. The performance difference in my eyes led me to the older SR-2 which can still be found out there…

Regards – P

[Ian Mapleson]

Paul Forcier writes:
> Hi Ian, I’m using the Xeon e5645’s which were less expensive and easily
> overclocked, unlike the current generation of Xeon which are locked out
> in that regard.

Indeed! The pice looks quite good for a 6-core 2.4 X58. Wouldn’t make
sense for a single-socket system of course, but for a dual-socket setup
that’s a nice compromise.

> better chips of that generation like the 5690, though they were a great
> deal more expensive.

Yeah, exponentially explodes cost-wise above a certain point. That’s why
I initially bought a used X5570 4-core (by default it’ll run at 3.2)
which only cost me 200 UKP at the time. It was cheaper than an i7 950,
has 50% faster QPI and a higher TDP, so in theory should oc easier,
though at least on my board (Asrock X58 Extreme6) this has proven a
challenge with the board maxed out to 24GB. I did manage to get a crazy
cheapo i7 990X much later but I’ve not installed it yet, still testing
the X5570 setup.

> My system has been very stable with this OC and have had no issues. This
> effectively has given me 12 Cores at 3.4 Ghz easily and 24 threads with
> multi-threading.

That should run really well, akin to a top-end Dell T7500 with 2 of the
best 6-cores. What do you get for CB 11.5?

> core. They are 1600s. I’d have to check to see how fast I have them
> running with the OC.

I’ve read about issues trying to oc X58 boards when all the RAM slots
are populated. Be interesting to know what you ended up with.

> There are i7s out there with 6 cores that will provide a higher benchmark
> on the benchmark test, with a high OC well over 4 ghz,…

I’m not so sure about that. 😀 Yes, the 990X, 3930K, etc. can reach
4.7/5.0 respectively with a good setup, but I suspect your decent clocks
and 12 cores will mean your setup actually has a useful advantage. Not a
huge amount better, but definitely better. I’d be surprised if your CB
11.5 score was less than about 16 or 17. I’ll make a guess and say it’d
be about 16.5, 17 at best.

> I am considering adding another GTX 690 for SLI with some games for my
> kids (ok, maybe me too, such as Battlefield 3 which responds well with 4
> way SLI on the two 690s) …

You’ll need extra tissues to cope with all the drooling. 😀

> run the benchmark again and report in….

Should be interesting!!

> difference in my eyes led me to the older SR-2 which can still be found
> out there…

Yes, that was the conclusion I came to when talking to my friend. For an
oc’d dual-XEON setup, older X58-based boards make more sense.

Thanks for the info!!

Ian.

SGI Guru