[Shawna Brookes]

So I downloaded the CS
11.1 Ray – tracing benchmark from the net and decided to test my computer.

As the AE file came, I left it as is and started the export render and was severely disappointed. I stopped it only after 20 minutes of rendering for final output. The estimated time was over 2 and a half hours.

Its seems that its CPU only that is doing the work and the AMD graphics card I have does nothing to aid in rendering the output file. What a disappointment.

Again, for those who are interested:

My set up is:
X99 Intel 5820k core
16 gb of standard ram, not overclocked, all working fine
256gb SSD Samsung Evo boot/windows/adobe suite disk
32 gb SSD output/ scratch disk
ASUS Pro motherboard
AMD Radeon r7 360 video card, 2 gb vram

However, searching on the net I see people running NVIDIA cards of various numbers and generations 4xx, 5xx, xx, 9xx getting really fast rendering times. I am envious.

[Shawna Brookes]

Thanks for the response. I hope all this will help other new users to sort out the whole CUDA, openCL, NVIDIA, AMD, rendering, ray tracing questions that are so common.

Aside from 3D rendering, I am quite pleased with Ae and Pr performance. It looks like I will now need to learn about these side programs available fro producing 3D texts and objects and import them into Ae.

I will see what Google has to reveal and what others may recommend in this thread.

Knowing this about ray-tracing and the need for a secondary program, this will determine future upgrades. My current video card has a ‘re-welded” plastic fan blade that broke off due to my fault, so the next upgrade should be a graphics card and / or more RAM?

Any thoughts and opinions?

Thanks again!

[Shawna Brookes]

Thanks Mr. Soyka,

Its hard to believe an, i7 5820k is a bottleneck, granted the 5960x and Xeons exist. But Im just an entry level pro-sumers getting their feet yet. Granted this is an entry level build for a workstation.

One time, I got the usage up to using 5 and 6 GB of RAM during rendering but I cannot achieve those numbers again. I might try again.

But even still, the black and green graph shows 3 to 4 GB of RAM being used but when the process list is displayed, it shows all the streams using a significant amount of RAM. I really don’t know which to believe.

So do GeForce video cards CUDA help support the final export rendering with the CPU, or is the CPU strictly the engine for final rendering?

Thanks