My MacBook Pro render time same as Quad Core

[Kevin Camp]

what’s more interesting is the macpro seems to get better with windows….

here’s a link someone posted earlier this month:
macvideopro.digitalmedianet.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=167680

[Wvladik]

I will test Vista64Bit sometime this week. I do have it installed on my BootCamp partition but it expired. .

I’ll have to borrow DVD at work this week and install it again for 30 days.

I’ll let you know results in this thread. Take care.

[Kevin Camp]

i ran the totalbenchmark test on my systm at work…. here’s the results:

system:
macpro 2x3ghz (dual-core xeon), 4gb ram

default settings (no disk cache, no multiprocessing):
7:35 total time

default ram settings, multiprocessing on (no disk cache) — note that witho only 4gb, only 2 more cores (3 total) were used when mp was enabled:
5:03 total time

ram 80%, ram cache 40%, multiprocessing on (no disk cache) — ram settings allowed 3 more cores (4 total) when mp was enabled:
5:03 total time

it was interesting that reducing ram to allow adding one more core for multiprocessing made no difference in render time.

Kevin Camp
Designer – KCPQ, KMYQ & KRCW

[David Franklin]

Thanks you two for running the benchmarks as well, now at least I know I’m in the same ballpark. Having opted for the slightly cheaper 2.66GHz machine may account for my slower times. (That’s how I’m interpreting the fact that my machine was the slowest of the three, despite having 6 Gigs of RAM.)

I’ll go back and try Nucleo Pro again and see if that’s any help. Or maybe I’ll just have to learn to work a little smarter by using proxies, etc.

Again, thanks for the feedback.

[David Stem]

This thread looks pretty much dead, but I was wondering what the render times on my Macbook would be vs. a Macbook Pro.

I ran the two files and they rendered in a total time of 16:38.

This is with a 2 ghz MB with 2 g Ram.

Anybody have any idea what the render time would be on a 2.6 ghz Macbook Pro with the new NVIDEA 8600M GT 512 graphics card with 4 G Ram? That’s what I’m thinking about upgrading to.

Thanks!

David

daveandjamie56@gmail.com