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

[Teddy Gage]

Ian, I have a new suite of total benchmarks, not just GPU. Would love to see your results on these. I am no longer supporting this outdated benchmark, although of course you are free to use it.

https://www.teddygage.com/AfterBenchCC/

RESULTS:

https://goo.gl/JrNIXd

Thanks!

PS. What on earth are you using 4 GTX 580s for? Bitcoin mining?

[Ian Mapleson]

Teddy writes:
> Ian, I have a new suite of total benchmarks, not just GPU. Would love to see
> your results on these. …

I’m still using the normal CS6 11.0.4; am I right in assuming your new suite needs AE CC?

> I am no longer supporting this outdated benchmark, although of course you are free to use it.

Thanks! It has certainly been useful, though I’ve been working with someone
on creating something a lot more complicated and better able to exploit multiple
GPUs: one frame takes about 10 minutes to compute with three 580s, while the full
animation takes many hours to render (tomshardware will be using the scene file
for their CUDA tests when it’s ready).

> PS. What on earth are you using 4 GTX 580s for? Bitcoin mining?

Mainly research into performance issues with AE and other computational
benchmarking experimentation. It’s a clone of a system I built for someone
a year ago, though better setup in some ways with lessons learned. Here’s
an up to date CPU-Z:

https://valid.x86.fr/r9ibvb

The CPU oc isn’t finished yet though, haven’t done the final tweaks or evaluated
the max speed (it was set to 4.7 with the old cooler, a Phanteks PH-TC14PE; new
cooler, now in a different case, is a Corsair H110).

Ian.

SGI Guru

[Tenchi Muyo]

@Ian

I’am using CS6 so i think it dont use all 3 of my Titans – only one Titan is used,
or i’am wrong?

Ah, ok the output files were written on my WD Velocirator HDD, now i use my Samsung 830 SSD (512GB):

now the time is:
1 min. 29 sek
+ 5 Sek.

So HDD/SSD influence this test.

BTW: nice card the MSI Xtreme Lightning i had this card too, i loved it!

Using the Samsung 840PRO (512GB)SSD (my C: drive)
and the testfile on D (my Samsung 830):

the time is:

2,23
and
3 sek.

All path are by default – wow thats much slower!

[Ian Mapleson]

Tenchi writes:
> now the time is:
> 1 min. 29 sek

That’s better, although still slower than what I would have
expected from three Titans.

> + 5 Sek.

What is this second time for? No point running the test
twice, it will all just be cached data.

> So HDD/SSD influence this test.

Hmm, maybe I should try again then, I was writing to
a mechanical drive RAID1.

> BTW: nice card the MSI Xtreme Lightning i had this card
> too, i loved it!

Indeed. 😀 I’ve obtained five of them so far. One thing
though, they’re a pain to install when there’s more than
two. The card is more like 2.1 slots wide, not 2 slots.
I’ve had to use spacing pads to keep them apart, otherwise
the fan blades clash.

I don’t quite understand your 2nd time; do you have a
separate SSD for the AE cache? You should do.

Ian.

SGI Guru

[Tenchi Muyo]

No, i have all on default C: (clean install) all “temps” for AE & AP is drive c:

The 5 sek. is not a second run (of cached files)
it renders two compositions.

See my first bench picture

[Ian Mapleson]

Tenchi writes:
> No, i have all on default C: (clean install) all “temps”
> for AE & AP is drive c:

That’s not the recommended setup. The AE cache should be
on a separate fast device, preferably an SSD.

I also have a separate 64GB SSD for the Windows paging file.

> The 5 sek. is not a second run (of cached files)
> i renders two compositions.

For this benchmark, it’s just the main render time that’s relevant.

Ian.

SGI Guru

[Tenchi Muyo]

Thanks i will change it in the future! 🙂

I found this test because i want to check if the “hack” works for my Titan.

Adobe says it doesn’t work because only the card name is regognized.

My 4960X cpu render this bench in 3 hours it says but i didn’t finished the bench because it takes too long.

I’am thinking about to change my 3 Titans to 1 Titan Black (because of SLI problems in games).

Is there a bench with the Titan Black?

[Ian Mapleson]

The adjustment to the supported cards file should work fine,
just make sure the name matches the identifier string in GPU-Z.
In your position I’d stick with the Titans, though for AE the
780Ti is the more sensible card to use, or it will be once we
can get a 6GB edition.

Ian.

SGI Guru

[Tenchi Muyo]

Does CS6 use all of my 3 Titans for rendering ?

(I thought its only possible since CC..)

Because i found this video with a Quadro K6000 and it takes 3:27m

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y87f9xbLPI8

Another comment for the video:

“Asus Geforce Titan in 3 minutes 12 sec
Systemspecs Intel I7 4930K and 32 GB”

With my 1 min. 29 sek it used all my Titans right?

Or are the times only the difference that one wrote the outputfile on HDD and me on SSD ?

EDIT:

Ok, CS6 uses alle my three Titan cards, i insert only one card and the time is:

3:03 min. @ 1xTitan SC
1:47 min. @ 2xTitan SC
1:30 min. @ 3xTitan SC

I had in the moment problems with my 3-way-SLI Far Cry 3 shutters like hell,
now i found out my third pcie slot is damaged – so i cant do a test with all three cards at the moment. 🙁

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[Ian Mapleson]

Tenchi writes:
> With my 1 min. 29 sek it used all my Titans right?

Yes.

> 3:03 min. @ 1xTitan SC
> 1:47 min. @ 2xTitan SC

NOTE: this benchmark does not scale that well across
multiple GPUs. The usage of each GPU with 3+ is not
linear. That’s why the time does not drop very much
when adding a 3rd Titan.

> I had in the moment problems with my 3-way-SLI Far Cry 3
> shutters like hell,

Could be a driver issue, or the wrong SLI profile. Mind
you, I’d have thought 3-way Titan is a bit overkill for FC3.

Ian.

SGI Guru