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AE CS6 11.0.1 CUDA BENCHMARK PROJECT – test your graphics cards!
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Yes, Gtx 5xx series have better CUDA performance than 6xx and even 7xx series cards. This is because nvidia gimped the cuda performance of these cards in favor of open gl performance. They are fantastic cards for gaming but not graphics. Currently the gtx 580 is the best performing cuda card for the money, and as the cpu is not involved, its doesnt matter how many cores you have. HOWEVER this only applies to the raytracing engine. Once you have normal 3d engine engaged, six core machines will dominate, and even I only occasionally use raytrace engine for graphics. The gtx 680 is quite a good card for open gl 3d using cinema 4d for example, so consider that as well.
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Thank you Teddy for the detailed explaination. I’ve seen better performance in Cinema 4D and Cinebench score is higher than my previous 480. Like you, i don’t use raytrace so much, i prefer Element 3D and its speed boost, but i was puzzling on why my results are worse than other previous cards!
Thank you again,
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That’s why I fitted my system with four 580 3GB cards. 😀
For 600/700 series, NVIDIA halved the clock rate of the
shaders (they did this to help with power/heat issues I’ve
been told), so a lot more cores are needed to match a 500
series card for CUDA. Also, the 500 cards have much more memory
bandwidth available per core, so they’re more efficiently used.
The newer cards are faster for standard gaming 3D tasks, but not
CUDA, at least not for 32bit fp anyway.Teddy, just a thought, should we include AE 12.1 results at all
in this thread? It might confuse people. Perhaps a new thread
for 12.1 data? Or at the very least ask posters to make it very
clear which version of AE they’re using.Ian.
SGI Guru
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Thank you Ian. I don’t want to make OT,because this thread is about benchmarks,and i must admit that one or two minutes more doesn’t make kill myself (in the “night-render” world you know,the important thing is to make all right and don’t need to render again!),but i don’t understand why a GTX680 with 2GB renders in 6.11 min and a GTX680 with 4GB renders in 7.4 min. If we are talking about ray trace and GPU render and if i understand how it works,the CPU and ram (system ram) doesn’t make difference in this kind of test. So a GTX 680 will render in approx the same time on every system. Is it correct? PCI 2 or PCI 3 as i understand come in place when you use SLI so a PCI 2 doesn’t make a difference on a single card.
I have the same result with an Intel DX58SO mobo and with an Asus P6T Deluxe. So it’s not a problem of mobo and it’s not a problem of the GTX680. As i said it’s a new rebuilt machine with two SSD,24 GB of ram (i know that is not a huge quantity,but i work very well and ram usage never goes up to 50% in render queue) and a i7 980x…so i don’t think that i have a low end machine…
I’ve tried to boost the card in GPU tweak,but i’m not able to oc a card and the fear of screw something is too much,so i prefer to work with standard settings…
I’ll stay with this values and be happy with the card,but the 50sec differences from the result i’ve seen here with another 680 is really strange to me…
Maybe there is a way to use better the GTX680?
I don’t know!!!
Thank you again for your time and patience and sorry for my bad english!
best regards,
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Roberto Tafuro writes:
> kill myself (in the “night-render” world you know,the important thing is
> to make all right and don’t need to render again!), …The people I help want both. 😀 Fast & reliable.
> … but i don’t understand
> why a GTX680 with 2GB renders in 6.11 min and a GTX680 with 4GB renders
> in 7.4 min. …Probably the latency is different because of the way the RAM is setup using
different ICs. And are you sure both 680s have the same core/RAM/shader clocks?> … So a GTX 680 will render in approx the same time on every system.
> Is it correct? …More or less, yes. I’ll be testing this to the extreme soon using an i3
550 system and four 580s, but so far I’ve not seen any excessive
differences with respect to the test platform being used.> … PCI 2 or PCI 3 as i understand come in place where you use
> SLI so a PCI 2 doesn’t make a difference on a single card.It might also matter when using multiple GPUs even without SLI, though
I was told the return path for gamer cards is only x1 speed anyway so
it doesn’t matter, but yes in this context I doubt it matters.> I’ve tried to boost the card in GPU tweak,but i’m not able to oc a card
> and the fear of screw something is too much,so i prefer to work with
> standard settings…I wouldn’t use any of the 600 series cards for CUDA. I realised this was
the case when the first reviews were published. Plus, back then, none of
the 600 cards were quicker than my two 560Tis SLI so I didn’t think it
worthwhile even for normal 3D gaming performance. Now I have two 580s
SLI which is faster than a 780 for gaming and waaaay faster for CUDA;
hence, my CUDA research machine has four 3GB 580s, and I’ve just obtained
another MSI 3GB 580 L.E. which should oc to 1GHz+ (I was able to give it
a quick run at 950MHz no problem; see https://www.3dmark.com/3dm11/7390717).> I’ll stay with this values and be happy with the card,but the 50sec
> differences from the result i’ve seen here with another 680 is really
> strange to me…Hard to know for sure, but check those clocks with GPU-Z, and as I say
the latency through the RAM could be a factor.> Maybe there is a way to use better the GTX680?
Yes; for CUDA, sell the 680 and use the money to buy a 3GB 580. 😀
> Thank you again for your time and patience and sorry for my bad english!
You’re kidding right? You have better spelling, punctuation, grammar,
etc. than most Brits. 😀Cheers! 🙂
Ian.
SGI Guru
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Hi there, i saw this treat newly; also i’m nearly new to after effects. Doing somethings fun for now.
My system: i5-2500K@4.2ghz 16ghz 1600 ddr3 120gb ocz agility 3 zotac gtx680 amp! 2gb win7 sp1
Render result gives: 6min 24sec
It really pushs gpu on heavy-load due fan gets work more faster while rendering 🙂
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i7-4930K
64Gb Ram (AE configured to use 6GB per CPU core)
2 x GTX Titan (SLI)
2 x SSD (Cache & Render)1:44 render time
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Thank you Ian for the kind words! It’s difficult to explain something in english for an italian like me!
I have to be honest,i’m a bit tired of build and rebuild my machine. I’ll live with the GTX680…at least is quiet and cold!
Hi Muammer!
So your GTX680 amp renders the comp in 6.24. It’s almost the same result of another 680 here in this thread. I think that the other one must be an amp version too… -
Hey I ran you benchmark on my build, it’s a hackingtosh running OSX 10.8.5
i7 3770K
32Gb 1600Mhz RAM
2x SSD (system/apps and chache)
GTX 570 1,25Gb RAMI got it done in 5:49. Not bad!
Thanks!
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First post here. I just upgraded my old Mac Pro 5.1 to a pair of CUDA cards: a flashed FTX 580 3GB and a stock 1.25GB GTX 570. The two of them play very well. With just the 580 my best time was 5:43. With both cards installed and running, my time was 3:19. I’m astonished that these cards scaled so well!
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