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3D STUDIO MAX 2012/13 Workstation benchmarks of large sample of high end workstations

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April 5, 2013 4:54:45 PM

Hi, Im a network admin/technician for a Landscape Architecture firm, we are looking at upgrading our 3d max workstations + possibly building a few rendering nodes (I think we use bucket rendering and can share processes from other workstation).

We use 3d studio max 2013, and we have 3 guys in our team, we also do a bit of after effects work.

I’m looking for some data sheets for rendering performance of a large sample of high end workstations across a few benchmarks.

like these:
Premiere Pro
http://ppbm5.com/DB-PPBM5-2.php
After Effects:
http://benchmark.slashcam.de/

Bit more background, we do lots of photo realistic renderings of housing developments up to small cities. Outputting still and animations. The rendering time is killing us. We currently don’t take advantage of GPU to rendering but might be looking at moving in that direction, but for now looking at just CPU, RAM, SSD + a nice video card but not Teslas.

We currently have Dell T7500’s with a fair bit of grunt(Dual Xeon), but we need to get the most bang for our buck.
Cheers

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April 5, 2013 6:01:47 PM

Your current workstations are adequate except they Don't have enough GPU muscle.
You could upgrade to new workstations with regular video cards and your render times would still be horrible.
Video card rendering decimates cpu rendering.
Not what you wanted to hear.
Your best cost effective upgrades should be those Quadro/Tesla Video cards added to your existing workstations.
If your renders are for presentation and not CAD design work , You Might consider GTX Titan cards as renderers.

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April 5, 2013 7:20:03 PM

Thanks for your responses,

We currently have a mix of Quodro 2000 and 3800 (i think), in terms of CUDA permanence I have read that the GTX Titan's seem pretty nice. I have an impression that you get much better performance/price out consumer equipment over say Quadro/Tesla, but i would like a more qualified opinion. I know at some point you have to pay start spending serious money to get serious performance.

We are only interested in final outputs, we don't need to have real time quality rending like i have seen with Vray tutorial, could be more applicable to industrial designers, our team creates visualizations from cad work, i guess it could be useful but our main goal is to get rending time down.
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April 5, 2013 10:26:43 PM

Max comes with iray and quicksilver. Have you tried those and seen what your render times are?
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April 6, 2013 4:45:22 PM

Aaron Sims said:
Thanks for your responses,

We currently have a mix of Quodro 2000 and 3800 (i think), in terms of CUDA permanence I have read that the GTX Titan's seem pretty nice. I have an impression that you get much better performance/price out consumer equipment over say Quadro/Tesla, but i would like a more qualified opinion. I know at some point you have to pay start spending serious money to get serious performance.

We are only interested in final outputs, we don't need to have real time quality rending like i have seen with Vray tutorial, could be more applicable to industrial designers, our team creates visualizations from cad work, i guess it could be useful but our main goal is to get rending time down.



The titan cards are consumer model Tesla cards. Same chip or piece of silicone different drivers.
They offer a lot of CUDA compute performance. Rendering in your case.
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