Thea Render Benchmark

Samnorth wrote:Great. Apart from what Juju says, setting thea's priority to lowest will overall make your system more responsive which, in turn, will make your handling of Thea faster. You can cancel or pause faster, move your mouse faster, orbit in IR faster and can eventually surf the web while rendering too. There's also a flickering issue when turning on your monitor while a render is in progress for a long time that seems to be less evident when lowest is in place.Either way, when you are doing nothing else, Thea will use every resource available so there will be no considerable loss in Low or Lowest, hence it's the recommended setting.

I can say that I've had a very good experience with a Quadro card. My machine is as follows:BOXX 4920 XtremeHex-core i7 @ 4.5GHz, 32GB ram, Quadro 4000.Granted, I know a lot of the performance is due to the processor speeds, but the graphics card has always been more than enough for anything I've ever thrown at it. I've worked on an model detailed enough to be used for construction details and was in excess of a million faces, and it was faster than most 20 mb models on my work machine. I would heartily recommend the Quadros. They're pricey, but totally worth it.Sent from my XT1080 using Tapatalk.

All types of Thea Render motion definitions are now supported by Presto. This enables end users to render efficiently transformation motion blur within fraction of typical render times. V-Ray Benchmark is a free standalone application to help you test how fast your hardware renders. The benchmark includes two test scenes: one for V-Ray and another for V-Ray GPU, depending on the rendering engine you’re looking to measure.

Liam887 wrote:You wont really notice much difference in SU depending on your video card as it comes from the CPU. While the TITAN is great for gaming you can get other cards that do nearly as much damage when redering for substantially cheaper.Also did you mean 50,000 polygons or 50,000,000!Gotta disagree, nothing beats the Titan in rendering, the 6GB Vram is the clincher.You have too much money Pete.For example two GTX 680's in SLI will out perform the Titan as a whole but i dont know if Thea supports that?

Pete?EDITSaying that I just googled it and you can buy one for only £815 (probably cheaper if you look harder). I thought they where over £1k. You have too much money Pete.For example two GTX 680's in SLI will out perform the Titan as a whole but i dont know if Thea supports that?

Pete?I wish, I tried selling my kids to get a Titan card, but no takers I only have a 660ti 3gb.The thing is you can have as many cards as you want for rendering and they will combine and speed up your renders but it will only use the Vram from one card so you are limited there, so the Titan which is a damn fast card also has 6gb of ram, so for the money it's the best option. You have too much money Pete.For example two GTX 680's in SLI will out perform the Titan as a whole but i dont know if Thea supports that? Pete?I wish, I tried selling my kids to get a Titan card, but no takers I only have a 660ti 3gb.The thing is you can have as many cards as you want for rendering and they will combine and speed up your renders but it will only use the Vram from one card so you are limited there, so the Titan which is a damn fast card also has 6gb of ram, so for the money it's the best option.Ahh I see yes. In the same boat I would like them but not going to happen any time soon.

Liverpudlian82 wrote:Thanks for your opinions.So understand that CPU is the bottle neck in SU. Problem is: it does not get much faster than what I already have:/@liam: 50.000.000@solo: Love your avatarOne thing I have used in SU to get around this problem is create a model in multiple documents and then assemble in the render engine. Or only compile the model when you want to output for a render. I have special tags in my geometry so the bits piece together like lego. Cdc rs 232 driver for mac. I can then delete that geometry in Thea if that makes sense?And if you cant be bothered to do that you can use the layers panel.

I have managed some fairly big models in the multi million polys on my laptop. Sketch3d.de wrote:Quadros typically do not show any advantage for SU display output speed, i.e. Burning money for nothing.I'm not sure about this. I'm waiting for a clarification for years now.

Sketchup is still openGL, so theoretically there should be an advantage. I really would like to see some fundamental tests of this, but a problem is that there is no proper benchmarking method.

Maybe by playing an automated sequence of a bigger scene, but then the adaptive degradation would have to be disabled for proper results.But yes, i think the best way to speed up sketchup is still a high single core CPU performance. @Solo: Did the card arrive yet? @Solo: Did the card arrive yet? Solo wrote:I was looking at a dual Xeon system recently but decided to rather stick with my very tired 1st generation i7 (never did get the funds to take advantage of the deal I arranged early this year for community) I instead gathered up all my sheckles, borrowed a few from wife and bought a Titan card instead.I'm interested to hear this as I'm in the same boat. I have an early i7 2600K and I find it lagging on lots of projects. But in this year alone I bought a license for Rhino, a license for V-Ray for Rhino, upgraded my V-Ray for SketchUp and upgraded my Modo license.

I managed to get good prices on all of them (it is worth it to wait for deals) but it adds up to a lot of dough. I figure a new computer is going to set me back at least $2500. If I could get a speed boost for another year by buying a Titan, that would be more realistic considering the carnage that all that software did to my bank account. Matt.gordon320 wrote:I can say that I've had a very good experience with a Quadro card. My machine is as follows:BOXX 4920 XtremeHex-core i7 @ 4.5GHz, 32GB ram, Quadro 4000.Granted, I know a lot of the performance is due to the processor speeds, but the graphics card has always been more than enough for anything I've ever thrown at it. I've worked on an model detailed enough to be used for construction details and was in excess of a million faces, and it was faster than most 20 mb models on my work machine. I would heartily recommend the Quadros.

They're pricey, but totally worth it.Sent from my XT1080 using TapatalkGREETING MY FRIENDS::I just want to share my BAD EXPERIENCE in SKETCHUP with a Geforce GTX 780M.Unfortunately, I think I made a bad choice in pick up one Geforce for my work. Despite of its great fastness and power horse of a GTX 780M, this card 'couldn`t' handle my 3 million edges 3D work in SKETCHUP. I am pissed of about it.a little bit of my story:recently I bought a new laptop so I can replace the old one and get done my ultimate Architecture JOB. This JOB is a very complex 3D, with many, many layer, drawing in STELL FRAMES and ELIPTICAL SHPAPES, plus TRELLIS and so on.After I check the GPU market, and after many many hours research for a nice GPU card that handle this job, and most of all, that handle 3D application softwares like PHOTOSHOP CS5, AUTOCAD 2010, SKETCHUP 2013, RHINO 5, ARCHICAD, ARTLANTIS 4, ILLUSTRATOR, OFFICE, and more 1 or 2, etc. I think I made a BIG BAD choice by pick up a GAMING CARD for work. I think mostly because of its big specs, compare GTX and QUADRO, like memory bandwith, cudas, directx, etc, plus it`s mature drivers that are more COMPATIBLE with numerous softwares.

So I pic a GTX 780M. A really BAD BAD CHOICE here.!!!!my laptop is a:CLEVO P150SM (SAGER in USA)15,5' Full HD 95% High Color Gamuti7 4710MQ 2,5Ghz - 3,5GhzGTX 780M16Gb RAM G-Skills 1600 CL9SSD Samsung 840 Pro 256GbAll the hardware components have a really nice configuration, and they are very, very, fast in calculate multitasking, open and close applications, transfer, open and close apps.

Although I was surprising by the BAD SMOOTHNESS in VIEWPORT WORKFLOW of this card.Has most of us know, all 3D applications require a SMOOTH REAL TIME VIEWPORT, so we can have the SHADER, SHADOWS, TRANSPARENCES, and ALL LAYER turned ON, for get that work done.But its getting impossible with this card. And I have to say that I bought bought this laptop about 5 days ago.I have to say, I am BIG DISAPOINTED with the WORST and BAD PERFORMANCE of the GTX 780M on that matter. It simply not handle the 3D ROTATE, or the SHADOWS turn on when I need to ROTATE. I am really pieced of and very irritated about this.I have contact Mrs Bob from RHINO McNeel FORUM, to ask him what GPU and Hardware he recommended to use RHINO 5 in smooth viewport workflow. And he say: 'that my configuration is enough.

He had a GT750M and work like charm.' .So I start to think about WHAT IT COULD BE, for my GTX 780M wont work properly.?????I have to say, that I already test the card into 2 benchmarks. SPECviewperf 12 and SPECwpc. I have to admit that results, from SPECviewperf 12 was a disaster. Some parts of benchmark, like CATIA, ENERGY, MEDICAL are really fine.

But SIEMENS and some others have a very low values like 2,5 min - 4,3max (very low results if we compare this GTX 780M with a K1000M or K2000M). Does the QUADRO K3100M can handle my job? Does Quadro K3100M card are a 'must have' for those u just work, and don't want to play games at all???

Does QUADRO cards are more reliable for any 3D Sofware that use OpenGL? Can I get a smooth 3D rotate in VIEWPORTS, for example in SKETCHUP, or RHINO? (two apps that use OpenGL)?? Should I change GTX 780M for a QUADRO K3100M (the maximum Quadro GPU that my laptop support)??? Does QUADRO K3100M still do the job in other apps?

Like AUTOCAD 2010(12), PHOTOSHOP, ARTLANTIS, V-RAY, or other?Or if I choose that QUADRO card, I only get 100% performance if I work on certification drivers?because, QUADRO cards seems to not have great updates of its DRIVERS. It seams they only work in some 3D app.

Roland stika software. Like solidworks, maya etc.I don't need speed. I just need to complete my job, fast and smooth rotate in real viewport.So if one could tell me what GPU CARD should I change for this, so I can a nice workflow in 3D apps. Or specially, in that soft wares that I mentioned just above.