Render test with GTX 680 (300% faster)

Rich Parry wrote on 7/13/2012, 11:37 PM
I put together a new PC with the GTX 680 graphics card. Here are preliminary results using “rendertest-2010” and the render/project properties specified by the render-test author.

120 seconds. VP10.0e
285 seconds VP11 (wo GPU)
40 seconds VP11 (w GPU)

Summary:
Render is ~300% faster using VP11 w GPU compared to VP10 (40 vs. 120)
Render is ~700% faster using VP11 w GPU compared to wo GPU (40 vs. 285)
Render is ~ 240% slower using VP11 wo GPU compared to VP10 (285 vs. 120)

Based on this test, if you are going to use VP11, you should to have a fast graphics card, you are penalized if you don’t. If you don’t have a fast graphics card, it is better to use VP10.

It seems the Sony engineers worked to improve GPU rendering at the expense of slowing CPU rendering.

There may be holes in this test but I think I was careful and the results are accurate, of course YMMV.

My 2 cents,
Rich

CPU Intel i9-13900K Raptor Lake

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OS Drive Samsung 990 PRO  NVME M.2 SSD 1TB

Data Drive Samsung 870 EVO SATA 4TB

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OS MicroSoft Windows 11 Pro

Rich in San Diego, CA

Comments

TheRhino wrote on 7/14/2012, 10:57 AM
On our 6-core 980X with an older GPU my CPU-only render results are similiar to yours. V10e uses 100% of the CPU whereas V11 only uses about 60% and takes 2X as long.

However, I am looking at getting GTX 680s for our older I7 920 workstations vs. over-paying for an obsolete 990X or taking a risk with used CPUs... We could then use the GTX 680s when we replace those systems in a year or so when Thunderbolt technology and PCIe 3.0 hardware RAID cards are more available & affordable.

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...

Woodenmike wrote on 7/14/2012, 4:25 PM
Rich, would you post your system specs so we all have more to compare to? I just finished a build and am getting very fast (27 sec.) renders on the rendertest with GPU. One of the things i notices that helped acceleration was running precision X from EVGA as well as a very recent beta driver (7-3-12) from NVIDIA (I posted the link in another post last week) I'm getting ready to start trying the rendertest with different settings on ram and rendering threads to see what that does to render times.
flacnvinyl wrote on 7/14/2012, 11:11 PM
I would love to give you a hearty amen but unfortunately Vegas 11 doesn't support my brand new Galaxy GTX 670 card. Latest firmware was released July 11th, so yes, it is up to date. No problems from other NLEs. Vegas recognizes the GPU for normal operations, but fails to recognize it in avchd/mp4 renders.
Woodenmike wrote on 7/15/2012, 9:25 AM
My GTX 670 rendered avchd/mp4 files (at least in the render test footage) when I first installed, but got the error message as soon as I installed the third party plug-ins.
Rich Parry wrote on 7/17/2012, 3:02 PM
My system specs are below. Thanks for mentioning this, for years I thought my system specs were public, but based on your comment I checked and noticed I didn't make that information available. The information is now public. Here is really what you want however.

Windows Version:7 64-bit
RAM: 24GB DDR3
Processor: Dual Xeon L5640 2.27GHz (24 Cores)
Video Card:EVGA GeForce 680 SC Signature+ (2GB RAM)

CPU Intel i9-13900K Raptor Lake

Heat Sink Noctua  NH-D15 chromas, Black

MB ASUS ProArt Z790 Creator WiFi

OS Drive Samsung 990 PRO  NVME M.2 SSD 1TB

Data Drive Samsung 870 EVO SATA 4TB

Backup Drive Samsung 870 EVO SATA 4TB

RAM Corsair Vengeance DDR5 64GB

GPU ASUS NVDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti

Case Fractal Torrent Black E-ATX

PSU Corsair HX1000i 80 Plus Platinum

OS MicroSoft Windows 11 Pro

Rich in San Diego, CA