If I bought a CRAY super computer will CA be faster?

[Glenn Woodward]

Here are mine.

Render: 2 sec
Render + shadows: 24 sec
Watercolor + line: 20sec
Watercolor + line + shadows: 65 sec
Raytrace: 36 sec

What are the standard raytrace settings?

The big differences in times seem to be the watercolor+line+shadows - mine seem ultra fast compared to others with times like 10 minutes! Are we all using the same technique?

[ambrozac]

Standard Render............................................ ...... .35 sec
Standard Render-Final View w/Shadows.................16.97 sec
Watercolor w/Line Drawing...................................13.72 sec
Watercolor w/Line Drawing-Final View w/Shadows...43.24 sec
Raytrace (Default)......................................... .....54.00 sec

Used camera provided in the plan. Screen size is 1570x648, except for Raytrace, which is 640x480. Times
and screen size taken from the status bar. Raytrace time taken from the top.

Gateway Desktop PC FX6800-01e
i7 920 2.67 GHZ 6MB Ram
Windows Vista Home premium (x64) SP2
Nvidia GeForce GTS 250

[dshall]

Wow! Cliffs and Glenn's times are incredible.... What is my machine missing? I don't get it.

[PhoenixConstruction]

I was thinking the same thing - Here's the catch. I've been doing all of these on a 30" monitor. I moved to my 20" monitor and the times got better. Even more.... If you reduce the size of the Chief Screen, it gets even faster.

That means that none of these times are a comparison. Here are what mine are now with about a 10" (diagonal) size;

Water Color w/ Line Dwg. = 5.8 seconds
Additional for Final View w/Shadows = 19.5 seconds. That's down from 5 minutes 42.7 seconds on my 30 inch screen.

Size matters

[dshall]

I was wondering if monitor size mattered. Glenn and Cliff, what size monitor are you guys working on?

[Glenn Woodward]

I have 2 x Samsung SyncMaster 204B (20").
Resolution is 1600x1200.
I am thinking that the resolution is probably more important than the size.
When I did the initial tests I had Chief running on 1 screen only.

I just tried them in a smaller Chief window and all the times just about all halved (except the raytrace which renders at it's own size - makes sense, I guess.

[ambrozac]

I have a single monitor setup.

22" Westinghouse ...
1680x1050 resolution

[Doug Park]

Size of the monitor matters.

The screen should not redraw when moving the mouse.

This may be caused by any number of things including mouse drivers. I never install the mouse driver that comes with the mouse unless I'm trying to debug a problem that they cause.

[Dermot Dempsey]

Actually, what usually matters most for both render and raytrace views is the resolution of the monitor (or the Chief window if you are not full screen). It's really all about the number of pixels needed.

[PhoenixConstruction]

So this whole test thing is bogus?

[Gary Doski]

Ok, there goes the bench mark!

My is a 32" Acer 1920 x 1080

I wonder if there is a way to a common ground so we can really see what performs best?

[Joe Carrick]

Actually, what usually matters most for both render and raytrace views is the resolution of the monitor (or the Chief window if you are not full screen). It's really all about the number of pixels needed.

Dermot,

I've been considering getting a 40" LCD TV to use for Chief in my office. Would this be a bad idea?
Would it severely degrade speed of render views compared to a 20" monitor?

[Gary Doski]

Dermot,

I've been considering getting a 40" LCD TV to use for Chief in my office. Would this be a bad idea?
Would it severely degrade speed of render views compared to a 20" monitor?

that is what he said it would do.

[Joe Carrick]

that is what he said it would do.

OK, how much?

[dshall]

So this whole test thing is bogus?

Yeppers, I think so.