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

[Dennis Mungai]

Hardware:

Nvidia GTX 860M 2 GB (Maxwell SKU).
Intel Core i7 4700HQ
Using newer Nvidia OptiX DLL with Adobe After Effects 2015 CC on Windows 10 insider preview.

Time taken: 8 minutes, 43 seconds with CUDA-accelerated ray tracing enabled.

[Tenchi Muyo]

questions:

Is there any advanage of using a normal graphic card or a (real) workation card?

How good is OpenCL in AE CC2015/2015 ?

Thinking to compare a ATI Firepro w9100 instead my 3-way-Titan SLI..

[Stefan Saw]

Tested my 980 TI today:

2:36

Checked, “use unsupported card”

[Tenchi Muyo]

Did you use CS6 or cc2015 ?

[Łukasz Szymański]

Altough this is an old post I wanted to add sth:

Asus Laptop, Apache G-71 or sth, well the new ones (hard to say that sth is new when you buy laptop with new gfx cards after so many years yet the benchmarks are still the same – conclusion: software coding needs to be upgraded, not the hardware ;).

Specs:
i7-6700, 2.6Ghz (4cores, 8 threads, GTX 970M 3GB version,
16Gigs of Ram DDR4, mx ssd drive blah blah (and win 8.1, r.i.p). Now:

https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/2/1019120

I have done the benchmark (add enabling the 970 card in AE and PR with optix library) and got the result: 5:31. So it’s nothing new, the hardware is good, fast, blah blah.

Now HERE’S THE THING that made me register and ask you guys:

In preferences I have ticked the Multiprocessing (so all CPU allocated, 3GB per core) and rendered the same project: IN 5 seconds. The quality of the output was the same (well, bitrate slightly lower – no problem as it was loseless anyway), instead of mov I got avi. Can someone tell me what is that all about then? 5 SECONDS?!

Sory if this is some trivial difference in image processing that I didn’t grasp but I just had time and no more will to write the darn application for a client and website for myself, almost 24:00 in here :).

Cheers!

[Tenchi Muyo]

New Bench (Laptop):

Hewlett Packard J8Z41EA#ABD ZBOOK 17-G2 43,94 cm (17,3 Zoll) Notebook (Intel Core I7-4810MQ, 3,5GHz, 16GB RAM, 256GB HDD + NVIDIA Quadro K4100M

11 Min. 49 Sek.

[Tenchi Muyo]

Excellent info thanks!!

Just curious, what do you get for my test? (Frame 96 only)

https://www.sgidepot.co.uk/misc/cuda.101.zip

I’m guessing it’ll take about 10 mins with three Titans.

Also, what do you get for the Arion 2.5 test?

Ian.

——–
SGI Guru

How can i run this test?

I dont have a render button in AE..

[Hong ze Liew]

Great stuff. Sharing the love for some of the cards I have at work.

After Effects CC 2015.3 (Enabled unsupported GPU)
Prior to running benchmark, purged Memory & Disk Cache.

Quadro M5000 + M4000 – 02 mins 26 sec
Xeon E5-1630 v3 @ 3.70GHz
16 GB Ram

Quadro M5000 – 03 mins 30 sec
Xeon E5-1630 v3 @ 3.70GHz
16 GB Ram

Quadro M4000 + M4000 – 02 mins 54 sec
Xeon E5-1660 v3 @ 3.00GHz
16 GB Ram

Quadro M4000 – 05 mins 07 sec
Xeon E5-1660 v3 @ 3.00GHz
16 GB Ram

[Marc Gutt]

Now, I tested a Palit GTX 1050 Ti KalmX. A low power full passive card. Adding it to the supported cards was easy, but the Raytracing was disabled. But finally I found someone (idmee.id/2017/05/adobe-after-effect-cc-2017-update-april.html) providing a changed optix.dll for Adobe CC. I tried the “Optix only” Download and used it for After Effects CS6 and it worked:

GTX 1050 Ti 5:30

PC Setup:
Haxx Case 0.1 (full passive)
SuperMicro C7Z170-M
Intel i5-6600T
16 GB RAM
Palit GTX 1050 Ti KalmX
Samsung SSD 850 Pro 256GB

The pc consumes 17 watts in idle and 86 watts during the benchmark.

[Vitaliy Vinogradov]

Adobe After Effects CS6, CC, CC2014, CC2015 Ray Traced GPU Render Engine
Nvidia Optix 3.9.2 (https://developer.nvidia.com/designworks/optix/downloads/legacy)
manual replaced optix.1.dll in folder …\Adobe After Effects CS6\Support Files
and edited raytracer_supported_cards.txt file
Ae CS6
nvidia driver ver. 378.92

GTX 980 Ti PCIEx1 (riser in x16) (core/mem 1000/7008 MHz) 00:03:07
GTX 980 Ti PCIEx1 (riser in x16) (core/mem 1250/7008 MHz) 00:02:52
2x GTX 980 Ti REF PCIEx1 (risers in x16 and x1) 00:08:53*

GTX 1050 Ti OC PCIEx1 riser (core/mem 1354/7008 MHz) 00:06:42
GTX 1050 Ti OC+ PCIEx1 riser (core/mem 1554/8008 MHz) 00:06:28
2xGTX 1050 Ti OC PCIEx1 risers (core/mem 1354/7008 MHz) 00:08:00*
3xGTX 1050 Ti OC PCIEx1 risers (core/mem 1354/7008 MHz) 00:05:51*

GTX 1070 PCIEx1 riser in x16 (core/mem 1506/8008 MHz) 00:03:25

* – this is very strange, the reason is in the risers and the fact that the 2nd and 3rd cards are connected to the PCIe x1 ports

P.S. Nvdia Optix 4.0.0 and higher print message about wrong driver version (need testing)