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

[Paul Forcier]

Stable OC 3.6 with a new bios and the 2 GTX 690 got me 3 min 22 sec

[Ian Mapleson]

Interesting how the performance scaling occurs with this test,
or rather doesn’t (usage per GPU isn’t maxed), ie.:

4x GTX 580: 2 mins 41 seconds.

That is only just a little bit quicker than 3x 580.

Mbd is an ASUS P9X79 WS, 3930K @ 4.7, 64GB/2133 RAM, 128GB MAX IOPS
for the AE Cache.

OTOH, the result correlates quite well with Paul’s dual-690, given
the 680 isn’t as quick as a 580 for CUDA, so it makes sense that
4×580 would be a bit faster than 2×690.

Anyone here have 2+ Titans? That would be interesting.

I was wondering whether the higher PCIe bw of the newer P9X79E WS
would help here (x16/x16/x16/x16 for 4 cards, instead of x8/x8/x8/x8),
but who knows. Is there such a thing as a tool which allows one to
monitor the bandwidth usage of the PCIe links?

Also, have a look at the results for the Arion test, the systems
employed are kinda whacko (I’m thinking water-cooled 1-slot GPUs
for sure):

https://www.randomcontrol.com/arionbench

My tri-580 entry is at no. 26. I’ve tested 4×580, it gave a score
of 5317, which should take the no. 15 spot. 8)

Ian.

SGI Guru

[Joel Bondoux]

AMD Phenom II x4 955 BE (default clock)
GTX Titan (6Gb VRAM)
12Gb Ram
2 x SSD – one for render, one for cache

After Effects CC v2.0.0.404
Nvidia Driver: 320.49

Render Time: 4:28

[Joe Presswood]

45 seconds

Nvidia Maximus 2.0
Quadro k5000 with Tesla k20x

Hp z820 workstation…xeon e5-2660

[Teddy Gage]

We have a winner. Where should I send your free totebag?

😀

[Ian Mapleson]

Joe Presswood writes:
> 45 seconds

I hate to sound sceptical, but that doesn’t sound right to me. Such
a result doesn’t remotely correlate with other metrics such as Arion:

https://www.randomcontrol.com/arionbench

Are you sure the render is not being cached or somesuch? ie. purge
the cache and all memory before starting the test, and of course
make sure it’s set to RayTraced3D, not Classic3D.

Can you post some screenshots of the NVIDIA Control Panel or
AE Preferences showing the CUDA GPU pool in use?

If it really is running that quick then it would be imperative
to find out why, but alas I doubt it’s correct. :/

Ian.

SGI Guru

[Todd Kopriva]

Several GPUs have been added to the list of cards that After Effects will use for GPU acceleration of the ray-traced 3D renderer in the After Effects CC (12.1) update.

See this page for details:
https://adobe.ly/AE_CC_12dot1_details

I’d be curious to see people’s feedback about these cards in the newly updated After Effects using the benchmark test on this thread.

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Todd Kopriva, Adobe Systems Incorporated
After Effects quality engineering
After Effects team blog
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[Michael Stephens]

I got a slight boost with the 12.1 AE update.

My system is
AMD Phenom X4 9750
8G PC2-6400 (400Mhz) (5-5-5-18)
Windows 7 64-bit Professional SP1
GeForce GTX Titan

I went from 4 minutes & 33 seconds down to 4 minutes & 12 seconds.

[Roberto Tafuro]

So…i think that the GTX680 is the worst GPU here! I have changed my mobo from a DX58SO to an ASUS P6T Deluxe to add other 12GB of ram. I have an i7 980x 3,33GHz, 24GB of ram and an ASUS GTX680 with 4GB.
I’ve updated CC apps to 7.1 and made a test yesyerday. I’ve boost the GTX680 to 1245 in gpu tweaks (if iremember well, otherwise the driver will stop to work).
My time is 6,56 min or 6,58.Absolutely no change from previous AE. If i leave the boost to its default i have 7,04 min, like in the past.

What i think…i don’t know…i’ve seen here GTX680 with 2GB made this render in 6,11 min, with a 4,xx GHz processor…but quad core (HT 8 cores i presume). I have a 6 core (12 threads) and i have slowest results…i use a PCI 2 but everywhere i read there will be no difference in this type of test. So…what’s happen?
I have two Intel DCS3500 SSD (240GB for OS and 120GB for AE cache)and i have rebuilt my pc,so i have only CC apps installed, no internet connection, no process in BG (Nod 32 is closed when i work)…
Strange results here and i really don’t know why. I think that the 680 is not well used by mercury in Premiere too…
I have a MXO2 mini, so i thought that the lag may come from the Matrox card and i plugged it out. No changes.
At this moment i don’t see any imrpvement in this new release of AE at all.

System:
Asus P6T Deluxe
i7 980x
2x SSD (AHCI mode) Intel DCS3500
ASUS GTX 680 4GB
24GB of ram triple channel Kingston
Matrox MXO2 Mini w Max

Sorry for my bad english!

[Roberto Tafuro]

PS
Here i see on quad cores and GTX570 better results than mine…what a hell!!! 🙂
I have to sell this 680 really soon…