Rob, it is kind of hard to quantify, unless you render the same project on two computers, because I always have filters that add to rendering time, i.e. noise reduction, sharpen, levels, etc. So, I can’t say ‘it will render an hour of video in xx minutes. But, when I take the same project over to another computer, my old production machine, it does take twice as long. The old machine is an i7 at 3.2 with 24 GB.
However, over the weekend I re-rendered 128 hours of video (no fx, no transitions) from 1280 30p to 720 PAL 25i, in about 26 hours.
So, I do like the twin CPU’s.
Jeff
2-Xeon X5680 @ 3.33, EVGA SR-2 Mobo, 48GB DDR3, GTX 580 3072MB, 16TB Attached Storage, Win7, Vegas 11 x64