The RANCH is the only renderfarm to publish precise performance benchmarks.
The
scenes shown here are available
on the Vue 7 Infinite / xStream Extras CD.
More details
are available in the RANCH
Renderfarm User Guide. Benchmarks last updated on
January 11, 2009.
Please note that efficiency may vary with
the nature of the scene. Optimal performance will be reached in animations:
- where all the frames have a similar render time.
- when the number of frames is very close to a multiple of 125 (to optimize the number of passes).
Animation
example:
'Godrays.vue' 250 frames
animation, default user settings, 1280 x 544 resolution:
Render
time
Speed
difference with the farm
Core 2 Extreme QX6850 @ 3.00 GHz
27 h 01’ 14”
83.9 times slower
RANCH
renderfarm
0 h 19’ 19”
1.0
Note:
To the actual render time must be added the time needed to distribute the project across
the network and to compress the frames after the render, but you do not pay
this additional time.
A Vue 7
animation which would take an
entire
week (7 days x
24 hours) on a Core 2 Extreme QX6850 (64-bit quad-core), would
be rendered in around 2 hours on the RANCH.
Now let’s take another
look at that!
If the render begins on monday,
the first day of the month,
at 12:00 PM, it finishes :
on
monday the 8th, at 12:00
PM on the Core 2 Extreme QX6850.
on monday the 1st, around
14:00 on the RANCH.
* Still image
example:
'StudioLoft' , still image, default user settings,
8000 x 4500 resolution:
Render
time
Speed
difference with the farm
Core 2 Extreme QX6850 @ 3.00 GHz
15 h 10' 58"
68.7 times slower
RANCH renderfarm
0 h 13’16”
1.0
Note:
To this render time must be added the time needed to recombine all the tiles into the final image
(a sequential task). In that particular case Vue needs a few minutes to create the final
image from the numerous tiles generated during the render, but you do not pay this additional time.
