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Whoami: Ian Mapleson
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At the low end, can an overclocked dual-core i3 match a mid-range stock speed 4-core XEON? The latter being a common choice for entry pro systems, eg. the E5540. In all of this though, RAM capacity must be born in mind; even if an oc'd consumer setup shows competitive performance, real-world work may involve quantities of data that exceed the max RAM capacity of such systems (16GB for P55, 24GB for X58, 32GB for P67/Z68).
Perhaps only X79 boards offer a viable solution to the RAM issue in the consumer space (64GB max), but a 6-core SB-E is pretty pricey anyway. Price/performance is critical for many solo professionals on limited budgets.
I'll add more results to the tables below as and when I can.
See after the table for the various CPU/motherboard/etc. settings.
Benchmark Files:
TotalBenchmark_AE6.aep (Tests 1 and 2) [Screenshot | Final Movie, 94MB 720x486 30Hz QuickTime] nightflight.aep [Screenshot | Final Movie, 114MB 720x576 25Hz QuickTime]
Results are shown in order of the Night Flight render time. All times are in minutes and seconds (mm:ss). Note that many older discussion threads found by Google searches will reveal numbers for the Night Flight test where only the first 10 frames are rendered, but all the data shown here is for rendering the entire 100 frame movie (remember this if you want to compare my data to that typically found on old forum threads).
Main Results Table
CORES / Total Benchmark MOTHERBOARD / SYSTEM CPU(s) THREADS MHz Test 1 Test 2 Night Flight mm:ss mm:ss mm:ss ASUS Maximus IV Extreme i7 2700K 4/8 5000 00:11 02:27 05:55 [Turbo ON; P67 Rev B3] Dell T7500 2x X5570 8/16 3190 00:16 03:25 06:02 [NUMA] ASUS P8Z68-V i7 2600K 4/8 4700 00:12 02:34 06:13 [Turbo ON] ASUS Maximus IV Extreme i7 2700K 4/8 3900 00:14 03:07 07:39 [Turbo ON; P67 Rev B3] Asrock P55 Deluxe i7 870 4/8 4270 Asrock P55 Deluxe i5 760 4/4 4017 00:16 03:28 08:49 Asrock P55 Deluxe i7 875K 4/8 3200 00:19 04:11 09:54 Dell T7500 XEON X5570 4/8 3190 00:19 04:05 10:01 Asrock X58 Extreme6 XEON X5570 4/8 2950 00:21 04:23 10:35 Asrock P55 Deluxe i3 550 2/4 4704 00:18 03:55 12:11 Asrock P55 Deluxe i3 550 2/4 3200 00:26 05:45 17:52 Maximus IV Exteme Pent G840 2/2 2800 00:27 06:18 22:05 SUN Ultra 40 M2 Opteron 4/4 2600 00:54 10:56 32:51
CPU Settings:
All configs tested with a Thermaltake Toughpower 1kW PSU, Thermalright U120 Extreme RevC cooler with 2 x Gelid Wing Blue 120mm 1500rpm, Win7/Ult/64, with the following exceptions: the SUN U40 and Dell T7500 have their own internal cooling mechanisms, and the i7 2700K used a Thermalright Venomous-X with two Coolermaster Blade Master 120m fans.
Asrock P55 Deluxe (P55), 4GB DDR3/2000 Mushkin Ridgeback (2 x 2GB): i7 870 @ 4270MHz (203.3 x 21, 7-10-8-27 @ 2030MHz): http://valid.canardpc.com/show_oc.php?id=1507189 i7 870 @ 2930MHz (195.3 x 15, 7-10-8-27 @ 1953MHz): http://valid.canardpc.com/show_oc.php?id=1511561 Asrock P55 Deluxe (P55), 8GB DDR3/1600 GSkill Sniper (2 x 4GB): i5 760 @ 4017MHz (191.3 x 21, 9-9-9-24 @ 1530MHz): http://valid.canardpc.com/show_oc.php?id=2217331 i5 760 @ 2945MHz (133.3 x 22, 9-9-9-24 @ 1333MHz): Asrock P55 Deluxe (P55), 8GB DDR3/2030 Mushkin Redline (2 x 4GB), i7 875K @ 3200MHz (133.3 x 24, 9-9-9-24 @ 1600MHz): http://valid.canardpc.com/show_oc.php?id=2227822 i3 550 @ 4704MHz (196.0 x 24, 7-9-9-25 @ 1568MHz): http://valid.canardpc.com/show_oc.php?id=2093028 i3 550 @ 3200Mhz (133.3 x 24, 7-9-9-25 @ 1333MHz): http://valid.canardpc.com/show_oc.php?id=2252847 Dell Precision T7500, 12GB (single CPU) or 24GB (dual-CPU) DDR3/1333 Samsung (6x2GB/12x2GB, 9-9-9-24/?), Win7/Pro/64: 2x XEON X5570 @ 2930MHz (HT on, Turbo on, 3190MHz): http://valid.canardpc.com/show_oc.php?id=2241184 1x XEON X5570 @ 2930MHz (HT on, Turbo on, 3190MHz): http://valid.canardpc.com/show_oc.php?id=2236417 Asrock X58 Extreme6, 12GB DDR3/1333 GSkill Sniper (3x4GB, 7-8-7-24/1T): XEON X5570 @ 2950MHz (134x 22, 7-8-7-24 @ 1342MHz): http://valid.canardpc.com/show_oc.php?id=2005935 Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD3R, 12GB DDR3/1066 GSkill Sniper (3x4GB, 7-6-6-19/1T): XEON E5540 @ 2550MHz (HT on, Turbo on, 2665MHz): http://valid.canardpc.com/show_oc.php?id=2239080 SUN Ultra 40 M2: 32GB DDR2/750 Samsung (8x4GB, 5-5-5-13/?), single EVGA GTX 460 1GB FTW (850 core): 2X Dual-core Opteron 2218, 2.6GHz (1MB L2/core): http://valid.canardpc.com/show_oc.php?id=2240236 ASUS Maximus IV Extreme (P67), 8GB DDR3/2133 Mushkin Redline (2x4GB, 9-11-10-28/1T): Pentium G840 2.8GHz (2-core, no HT, no Turbo): http://valid.canardpc.com/show_oc.php?id=2302374 i7 2700K @ 3.5GHz fixed (HT on, Turbo off): http://valid.canardpc.com/show_oc.php?id=2328012 i7 2700K @ 3.9GHz (3.5 + Turbo ON, HT on): http://valid.canardpc.com/show_oc.php?id=2328763 i7 2700K @ 5.0GHz (oc with Turbo ON, HT on): http://valid.canardpc.com/show_oc.php?id=2334534 ASUS P8Z68-V (Z68), 8GB DDR3/2133 GSkill Ripjaw (2x4GB, 9-11-10-28/1T), Quadro 600: i7 2600K @ 4.7GHz (oc with Turbo ON, HT on): http://valid.canardpc.com/show_oc.php?id=2353622
Other Benchmark Info:
http://www.sgidepot.co.uk/misc/pctests.html http://www.sgidepot.co.uk/misc/stalkercopbench.txt http://www.sgidepot.co.uk/misc/x3tcbench.txt http://www.sgidepot.co.uk/misc/uniginebench.txt http://www.sgidepot.co.uk/misc/uniginebench2.txt http://www.sgidepot.co.uk/misc/uniginebench3.txt http://www.sgidepot.co.uk/misc/viewperf.txt http://www.sgidepot.co.uk/misc/cinebench.html http://www.sgidepot.co.uk/misc/ptboats.txt http://www.sgidepot.co.uk/misc/callofjuarez.txt