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

[Tenchi Muyo]

According to the Adobe subscription:

Here in germany you will pay much more than US customers will pay.

The first year of the subscription is much cheaper then going into the second year.
Even the “cheap” teacher & student version cost first €232,05 than in the second year over €356,-
Thats 30 €/per month thats a lot for students.

If you are no student you have to pay: 713,86 € thats like you pay 830$/year.

Its ok if you earn money with it. For me its only a hobby.

I know the us citizen are more the people which rent things. Germans are more own things people.

And atm i did not see that CC2017 has improved technolgy in CPU & GPU using.
It runs like a slug.

And it cant be that every time you must write to adobes whish list “please support my Titan blacks or my 1080TI’s”.
Adobe should take care of this for getting every year much money.

[Tenchi Muyo]

7980XE CPU only rendering (Multicore set to 16 CPU cores):

1 hour and 4 minutes

Yes! I replaced the optix.1.dll file of cs6 with version 3.9.2.0 and the GTX 1080TI’s works perfectly with AE CS6 !

rendering time:
1 minute and 6 seconds thats a new record ????

My old times:

4960X@4Ghz / Asus REIV / 64GB RAM

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

4960X@4Ghz / Asus REIV Black Edition/ 64GB RAM

2:48 min. @ 1xTitan Black SC
1:36 min. @ 2xTitan Black SC
1:26 min. @ 3xTitan Black SC

[Tenchi Muyo]

I tried CC 2018, now i found out that i missed to change to set the Raytracer to Cinema 4d (cpu only).

The Cinema 4d renderer is will use all cores.

[Ian Mapleson]

Tenchi writes:
> Here in germany you will pay much more than US customers will pay.

One of many reasons why some do not like the subscription model.

> The first year of the subscription is much cheaper then going into the second year.

Can’t help thinking of it being analgous to getting addicted to a drug. ???? Get the user hooked, then they’re stuck with the cost bump.

> Even the “cheap” teacher & student version cost first €232,05 than in the second year over €356,-
> Thats 30 €/per month thats a lot for students.

They can certainly do better if they wanted to. Twenty years ago I tried to organise an advanced SGI lab in the north of England which would have a mix of O2s, Octanes and an Onyx2 rack loaded with Alias/Wavefront apps. This was at the university where I was a sysadmin (I ran a student lab of SGI Indys); A/W was willing to give an astonishing 99.5% discount on their software, which back then was very expensive in the commercial space. A staggeringly enormous discount; their management could see the benefit in students being able to learn these tools early (I think it led later to the Alias PLE release). Alas, the plan never went ahead, too many lazy lecturers who just didn’t care (over 1 million of grant funding was available). Pity, what a difference it might have made to students in the region to have free access to every single A/W there was (Alias, PA, Maya, Dynamation, Kinemation, and dozens more).

> I know the us citizen are more the people which rent things. Germans are more own things people.

Wouldn’t surprise me. ????

> And atm i did not see that CC2017 has improved technolgy in CPU & GPU using.
> It runs like a slug.

A common criticism of Adobe, they’re slow to update things, and then stuff just gets ditched entirely.

Mind you, Autodesk does the same thing. I’m not sure about now, but in 2008 there were bugs in Flame that had been there for years.

> Adobe should take care of this for getting every year much money.

Ah but that would mean fewer luxury parties for their management. :}

> 7980XE CPU only rendering (Multicore set to 16 CPU cores):

Try using a thermal monitor program to record what the CPU is doing during the render. Keep an eye on whether any throttling is occuring. Use HwINFO64, etc.

Do you have it overclocked? If not, I would have thought an EPYC build would be a better buy (would have said XEON but they’ve put the prices way up recently), but anyway.

Hmm, just to compare, what score do you get for running the Cinebench R15 test?

> Yes! I replaced the optix.1.dll file of cs6 with version 3.9.2.0 and the GTX 1080TI’s works perfectly with AE CS6 !

I guess Teddy’s point is that even though this works, it nevertheless is very likely the case that such newer GPUs are not being exploited properly.

RT3D does have some very weird behaviour with multiple GPUs, and sometimes certain elements in the scene can ruin the load spreading. I don’t understand why Adobe never added round-robin rendering as an option, as that would often be far more efficient, and faster, especially with partial scene data reuse, something ILM used to do with their Origin-based CPU rendering.

> 4960X@4Ghz / Asus REIV Black Edition/ 64GB RAM

Ironic that three 780 Tis would give the same result but have cost a lot less back then.

> I tried CC 2018, now i found out that i missed to change to set the Raytracer to Cinema 4d (cpu only).

To enable CUDA you need to buy the separate plugin, which is rather expensive. Another reason why some I talked to did not like the changes.

Ian.

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SGI Guru

[Tenchi Muyo]

“To enable CUDA you need to buy the separate plugin, which is rather expensive.”

Thanks for your post.
Can you give me a link or something to this plugin – want to know this.

[Ian Mapleson]

There are a number of different acceleration plugins for C4D (iRay, Octane, etc.), and which one is right for you depends on what you’re doing, your budget, and so on. Each product has its strengths and weaknesses. There isn’t a single best answer for everything. See:

https://www.maxon.net/en/products/workflow-integration/render-engines/
https://greyscalegorilla.com/2017/08/what-renderer-should-i-use-in-cinema-4d/

I suggest searching forum sites for discussions on the topic, shove “best renderer for C4D” into a search engine, that’s how I found the above links and there were many more.

Ian.

——–
SGI Guru