Athlon X2 RenderTest Results

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TheRhino wrote on 7/11/2005, 7:54 AM
PREVIEW WINDOW. . . .
YES, leaving the preview window open in Vegas 6.0 will prevent Vegas from utilizing the 2nd processor to increase render speeds. . . There has been some previous discussion on this topic from people who were using dual Xeons, dual Opterons, etc.

I, too, was able to get two instances of Vegas to render simultaneously at the same speed, but could not get one instance to improve on those render results. This all changed when I turned off the preview window.

Now that I have been using the Althon X2 as a normal part of my workflow, I am anxious to upgrade my other workstations. I've been keeping all larger jobs on this workstation. Some stuff I used to setup to render after hours can now render out during my lunch break. I am also taking less coffee/pop breaks waiting on the computer to do something. The multitasking ability of the X2 allows me to do quite a few things at once without making a huge difference on the background performance of other applications. I can now burn DVDs while doing several other tasks without worry. . . This is a big plus and the reason I want to upgrade my other workstations. . .

Workstation C with $600 USD of upgrades in April, 2021
--$360 11700K @ 5.0ghz
--$200 ASRock W480 Creator (onboard 10G net, TB3, etc.)
Borrowed from my 9900K until prices drop:
--32GB of G.Skill DDR4 3200 ($100 on Black Friday...)
Reused from same Tower Case that housed the Xeon:
--Used VEGA 56 GPU ($200 on eBay before mining craze...)
--Noctua Cooler, 750W PSU, OS SSD, LSI RAID Controller, SATAs, etc.

Performs VERY close to my overclocked 9900K (below), but at stock settings with no tweaking...

Workstation D with $1,350 USD of upgrades in April, 2019
--$500 9900K @ 5.0ghz
--$140 Corsair H150i liquid cooling with 360mm radiator (3 fans)
--$200 open box Asus Z390 WS (PLX chip manages 4/5 PCIe slots)
--$160 32GB of G.Skill DDR4 3000 (added another 32GB later...)
--$350 refurbished, but like-new Radeon Vega 64 LQ (liquid cooled)

Renders Vegas11 "Red Car Test" (AMD VCE) in 13s when clocked at 4.9 ghz
(note: BOTH onboard Intel & Vega64 show utilization during QSV & VCE renders...)

Source Video1 = 4TB RAID0--(2) 2TB M.2 on motherboard in RAID0
Source Video2 = 4TB RAID0--(2) 2TB M.2 (1) via U.2 adapter & (1) on separate PCIe card
Target Video1 = 32TB RAID0--(4) 8TB SATA hot-swap drives on PCIe RAID card with backups elsewhere

10G Network using used $30 Mellanox2 Adapters & Qnap QSW-M408-2C 10G Switch
Copy of Work Files, Source & Output Video, OS Images on QNAP 653b NAS with (6) 14TB WD RED
Blackmagic Decklink PCie card for capturing from tape, etc.
(2) internal BR Burners connected via USB 3.0 to SATA adapters
Old Cooler Master CM Stacker ATX case with (13) 5.25" front drive-bays holds & cools everything.

Workstations A & B are the 2 remaining 6-core 4.0ghz Xeon 5660 or I7 980x on Asus P6T6 motherboards.

$999 Walmart Evoo 17 Laptop with I7-9750H 6-core CPU, RTX 2060, (2) M.2 bays & (1) SSD bay...

philfort wrote on 7/11/2005, 8:02 AM
Leaving the preview window open makes no difference with my X2. I still get 39s for rendertest. Upping the RAM preview is what did it for me - maybe they are related some how.
TheRhino wrote on 7/12/2005, 6:21 AM
RenderTest Findings. . .

I'm still new to version 6, but apparently version 6 makes better use of the RAM preview. . .

At 16mb, RenderTest= 1:15 more/less
At 512mb, RenderTest= 0:40 more/less

If I have already run RenderTest, Vegas remembers that I have not made any changes to this small file, and the next time I render, it only takes a couple of seconds. . . Deleting the first renderd file does not do the trick either, I have to restart Vegas. . .

Conclusion: I think the old RenderTest is obsolete now that Vegas 6 and dual processors are here. . . It is just too small of a render to give accurate results. Its small enough to be held in the RAM preview, and therefore you are not getting a true evaluation of the performance of the rest of your system.

Concrete Data: As I shared before, I am using the X2 as part of my daily workflow now and find that it has more than doubled the performance of my Athlon 2400MPs which were o/c'd to 2.0ghz+.

Workstation C with $600 USD of upgrades in April, 2021
--$360 11700K @ 5.0ghz
--$200 ASRock W480 Creator (onboard 10G net, TB3, etc.)
Borrowed from my 9900K until prices drop:
--32GB of G.Skill DDR4 3200 ($100 on Black Friday...)
Reused from same Tower Case that housed the Xeon:
--Used VEGA 56 GPU ($200 on eBay before mining craze...)
--Noctua Cooler, 750W PSU, OS SSD, LSI RAID Controller, SATAs, etc.

Performs VERY close to my overclocked 9900K (below), but at stock settings with no tweaking...

Workstation D with $1,350 USD of upgrades in April, 2019
--$500 9900K @ 5.0ghz
--$140 Corsair H150i liquid cooling with 360mm radiator (3 fans)
--$200 open box Asus Z390 WS (PLX chip manages 4/5 PCIe slots)
--$160 32GB of G.Skill DDR4 3000 (added another 32GB later...)
--$350 refurbished, but like-new Radeon Vega 64 LQ (liquid cooled)

Renders Vegas11 "Red Car Test" (AMD VCE) in 13s when clocked at 4.9 ghz
(note: BOTH onboard Intel & Vega64 show utilization during QSV & VCE renders...)

Source Video1 = 4TB RAID0--(2) 2TB M.2 on motherboard in RAID0
Source Video2 = 4TB RAID0--(2) 2TB M.2 (1) via U.2 adapter & (1) on separate PCIe card
Target Video1 = 32TB RAID0--(4) 8TB SATA hot-swap drives on PCIe RAID card with backups elsewhere

10G Network using used $30 Mellanox2 Adapters & Qnap QSW-M408-2C 10G Switch
Copy of Work Files, Source & Output Video, OS Images on QNAP 653b NAS with (6) 14TB WD RED
Blackmagic Decklink PCie card for capturing from tape, etc.
(2) internal BR Burners connected via USB 3.0 to SATA adapters
Old Cooler Master CM Stacker ATX case with (13) 5.25" front drive-bays holds & cools everything.

Workstations A & B are the 2 remaining 6-core 4.0ghz Xeon 5660 or I7 980x on Asus P6T6 motherboards.

$999 Walmart Evoo 17 Laptop with I7-9750H 6-core CPU, RTX 2060, (2) M.2 bays & (1) SSD bay...

PumiceT wrote on 2/13/2006, 7:01 AM
Are there any less expensive, ATX dual-processor motherboards, or is that Tyan about as cost-effective as it gets? I don't want to get a new tower and also spend $500+ on a motherboard.

I guess I'll stick with dual-core on a single-processor motherboard.

Anyone have a suggestion on a motherboard that DOES NOT come with on-board audio and firewire? I don't want a Swiss Army Knife, I want a professional specialized knife, so to speak. I have PCI cards for Audio and Firewire, I don't want them on my motherboard. Heck, if it helps, I'll get a PCI network card to free my motherboard from the extra work. (Is that thinking backwards, or correctly?)
jaydeeee wrote on 2/13/2006, 12:04 PM
>>>PREVIEW WINDOW. . . .
YES, leaving the preview window open in Vegas 6.0 will prevent Vegas from utilizing the 2nd processor to increase render speeds. . . There has been some previous discussion on this topic from people who were using dual Xeons, dual Opterons, etc. <<<<

Is this true? Any workarounds besides closing it (I'd hate to keep opening/closing the thing over and over)

what a dumb lil bug
RalphM wrote on 2/13/2006, 1:12 PM
jaydeeee,

Unless I'm mistaken, you can set V6 to automatically close the preview window when rendering, but I can't find where the setting is right now....
RevJonG wrote on 2/13/2006, 3:33 PM
Hmmm I am shocked...
"Stock HP Pavilion zd 8080" laptop I thought I would be 3 or 4 times slower but render test, best 1:01

I am amazed ;o)

RevJonG