After Effects benchmark for your machine;

[tfortier]

3min14sec on my Laptop pentium M 750 (1.8ghz) powerful little silent beast!

I left an unused footage in the comp... just ignore it please.

I'll test it tomorow on my job Dual 2.0 G5 and possibly on a Dual Xeon 3.4

[oodle]

1 min 59 sec here on dual 3.0 xeon with 4gig ram (AE only sees 3 gig)
with many application minimize (sorry for being lazy to restart :))

[2a03]

It took 1min 38seconds running the render through Nucleo
It took 2min 1 seconds running a regular render

System is Amd x2 4400 with 2gb RAM

[Calle]

1 min 44 secs, X2 4200, 2Gb.

Edit: 1 min 39 secs after rebooting :)

[ShankNitrate]

1min 28sec, on a 4 x 2.5 G5 with 2.5gb ram at work.

[tfortier]

2min54sec on a dual G5 2.0ghz

thanks for all your reply guys! more more more!!!

ps: Nucleo rock! (wanna try it!)

[tfortier]

1min 30sec on a dual Xeon 3.4ghz (my boss computer)

[tfortier]

hey Oodle, your after effects really see 3gb of ram? I was thinking there is a 2gb limitation on win32..?

[tfortier]

Jérôme Dual 2.5 G5 did it in 2min11sec and lot of attitude! :thumbsup:

[J.ROAM]

Jérôme Dual 2.5 G5 did it in 2min11sec and lot of attitude! :thumbsup:I sure did. The machine has 3 GB of ram and KDX was downloading stuff at the same time... if that matters.

[tfortier]

http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/1015/graph9nl.th.jpg (http://img215.imageshack.us/my.php?image=graph9nl.jpg)

so far... Its just weird the 4400+ being slower than the 4200... AE is faster with extra cache usually!?!

[J.ROAM]

1 minute 8 seconds on my co-worker's Dual core AMD Opteron Processor 275 at 2.21 GHz with 2.75 GB of ram.

My G5 is s l o o o w w w ! :sad:

[SweetDreamz]

these numbers make me feel crappy 'bout my comp.

[evanfotis]

And some vintage input for a laugh.
7min 23sec on dual PIII 800mhz using AE6.5...
while downloading AE7 trial...4 the X2 rig!

[J.ROAM]

For old times sake, I'll post my MDD Dual-1GHz G4 results later. It's not very fast, but it has a lot of attitude to make up for it.

[J.ROAM]

OKAY, my G4 Dual-1GHz with 1.25 Gb of ram took a whopping 6 minutes and 42 seconds while running a few applications. OUCH! :sad: And my washing machine was running at the same time, does that slow down the computer?

[tfortier]

hehe... thanks Jérôme.. alias J-Roam... but what happen to your Opteron 275 post?!

J-Roam tested a Dual Opteron 275 2.1ghz at is job, here the incredible result:

1min 8sec :buttrock:

If I dont mistake, 275 is dualcore, then Its another Quad on the list!

[J.ROAM]

I don't know, it just got mysteriously lost.

[oodle]

hey Oodle, your after effects really see 3gb of ram? I was thinking there is a 2gb limitation on win32..?

yes using /3GB on boot.ini AE can use up to 3gig of memory

[tfortier]

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[tfortier]

hee.. dont know what boot.ini do but do you mean I just have to have 3 or 4 gb of ram and after effects will automaticaly see it or do I have to tweek something at startup?

ps: nobody have a 4800+? Im starving to see that one render it...

ps2: Hey J-raom, you got 5 post! we have to celebrate it with a pichet! :beer:

[J.ROAM]

Hey J-raom, you got 5 post! we have to celebrate it with a pichet! :beer:And you have 141 posts, we have to celebrate with 28 pichets! :eek:

[CGr00kIe]

2 min 57 sec on a regular old AMD 3200+ 2GB RAM.

[SweetDreamz]

2 min 57 sec on a regular old AMD 3200+ 2GB RAM.
WTH? It took 5 min on my 3200....but then I guess running folding alongside doesn't help.

[alvin-cgi]

2 min 46sec on dual AMD Athlon MP 2400+ (2GHz). 1 G ram.:) I will post another result after rebooting the machine.

[oodle]

hee.. dont know what boot.ini do but do you mean I just have to have 3 or 4 gb of ram and after effects will automaticaly see it or do I have to tweek something at startup?

no it wont automagicaly detect 3gb :), thats why you have to edit boot.ini
find something like this..

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect

add /3GB at the end to something like this...

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect /3GB

ps: it only works if you have 3gb or more memory

[alvin-cgi]

After rebooted machine, result still the same - 2 min 46sec.:)

[cem]

1 min 44 secs, X2 4200, 2Gb.

Edit: 1 min 39 secs after rebooting :)

I got the same as well for my X2 4200, 2Gb (1min 39 secs)

[tfortier]

niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiice Oodle! thanks for the tip! At the price of ram those days, I will definitively buy another gb! I was thinking its useless...

so far...

http://img92.imageshack.us/img92/6623/graph2b4hb.th.jpg (http://img92.imageshack.us/my.php?image=graph2b4hb.jpg)

[alvin-cgi]

hmmm... looks like AMD x2 4200 is next new machine for me!:D Value for $$.

[tfortier]

I still wanna compare with the 3800+ and 4800+ before saying that... And I cant explain the good score of the 4200+ in front of 4400+... im sure some setup was wrong...

but its obviously an excellent bargain! :deal:

[RyanKnopp]

Dual Opteron 246 (2.0 Ghz)
2 Gigs Ram

2 min 3 sec

Edit: 2 min 1 sec after a reboot

[tfortier]

Thanks Ryan_K


you can find a new link to the benchmark file here:

http://www.bestsharing.com/files/ms00118560/benchmark_AE_01.aep.html

anybody got a 4800+, 4600, 3800+?

[Levvv]

That last file you uploaded had some missing untitled.mov which I deleted. I assume it doesn't impact the timings as it was switched off anyway.

So anyway,

WinXP, Pentium 4 3.2Ghz, 2GB, AE6.5 = 2:29min


PS: I also find the results of the X2-4400 hard to believe.

[evanfotis]

That last file you uploaded had some missing untitled.mov which I deleted. I assume it doesn't impact the timings as it was switched off anyway.
You could try replacing that footage with a similar sized one you might have in your PC.
If the layer's eye is switched on, it will slightly slow down the rendering, 'cause the 3d solids on top are 30% opaque, so you have the transparency to be calculated.

[furikake]

Athlon 64x2 3800+ / 2Gb RAM Dual Channel

1 min 52 sec

PS: I ddidn't restart or close TSR programs (antivirus, firewall, etc).

[evanfotis]

Athlon 64x2 3800+ / 2Gb RAM Dual Channel

1 min 52 sec

WTF?
The lower end X2's outscore the high end ones?

Gotta start posting screengrabs of rendertime in AE and task manager side to side:D

[piss-ant]

Quad AMD Opteron, 8 Gigs of RAM

AE 6.5: 1 min 14 sec
AE 6.5 w/Nucleo 46 sec

AE 7: 1 min 12 sec
AE 7 w/ Nucleo 46 sec

Check out http://www.gridironxfactor.com/products/nucleo_benchmarks.asp for more AE benchmark information.

Btw: it's important not to have other applications running when doing benchmarks, it can invalidate the results.

I'll try running this comp on the other systems here and post the results.

Cheers,

Ben
GridIron Software

[vand]

5 MIN 12 SEC
AMD Athlon Xp 2400+ single procc
512 MB ram

[damien_wynter]

P4 | 3.2GHz | 1 GB RAM | WinXP Pro SP2 | AE 6.5 | 02:23

[tfortier]

Wow! lot of new score! happy me!

sorry for the missing file, you can delete it!

Arigato gozaimass Furikake-san!!! I was waiting for the 3800+ score! what are you doing in tokyo? I was thinking going do broadcast design in Osaka or Tokyo but cannot decide myself to quit my job and make the move... my wife is japanese, you know... (watashi wa nihongo ga skoshi anashimass... is there a way to work in english there?)

Evanfotis; the 4200+ was 1min39, the new 3800+ score is 1min52... I dont see anything wrong there...!?

Thanks Levvv and Piss-ant, I will upgrade the graph soon! Piss-ant, what are your cpu? Nucleo rock! (I have to convince my bosses of that! cheap they are!)


ps: I just upgrade this morning from a dual 2.0 G5 to a Dual Xeon 3.4, jez, what a difference! only downside, only 2gb of memory and when the task manager reach 1.3gb of memory usage, AE freeze for a very very long time (like 2 minutes!)... this is very bad! wth!

[piss-ant]

Thanks Levvv and Piss-ant, I will upgrade the graph soon! Piss-ant, what are your cpu? Nucleo rock! (I have to convince my bosses of that! cheap they are!)



Hey, you can tell your cheap bosses that Nucleo's cheap too! :deal:

Those timings were taken on a system with 2 dual-core (4 cores) AMD Opteron 270 processors (2 Ghz per core).

The other machines are:
Quad G5 (2.5 GHz) with 8 GB of RAM
Dual G5 (2 GHz) with 4 GB of RAM
Dual Xeon w/ HT (3.2 GHz) with 3 GB of RAM
Pentium D (3 GHz) with 3 GB of RAM (single cpu, dual-core)
Xeon w/ HT (2.8 Ghz) with 2 GB

Wasn't able to get the timings today. Will try again tomorrow.

Ben
GridIron Software

[tfortier]

GridIron is canadien company?!!

[ZippZopp]

1 min 40 sec

Athlon XP 4400+ x2
2gb Ram

[piss-ant]

GridIron is canadien company?!!


yep, Ottawa based. I know... GridIron == football therefore US company. I've been pushing for the name Looney Software but nobody likes one :).

[piss-ant]

Wasn't able to get the timings today. Will try again tomorrow.



Here are the rest of the number as promised. AE 6.5 only.

Quad G5 (2.5 GHz) with 8 GB of RAM
AE: 1 min 48 sec
w/ Nucleo: 1 min

Dual G5 (2 GHz) with 4 GB of RAM
AE: 2 min 42 sec
w/Nucleo: 2 min 24 sec

Dual Xeon w/ HT (3.2 GHz) with 3 GB of RAM
AE: 1 min 49 sec
w/ Nucleo: 1 min 27 sec

Pentium D (3 GHz) with 3 GB of RAM (single cpu, dual-core)
AE: 1 min 47 sec
w/ Nucleo: 1 min 29 sec

Xeon w/ HT (2.8 Ghz) with 2 GB
No timings... NICs are buggered.

[furikake]

Arigato gozaimass Furikake-san!!! I was waiting for the 3800+ score! what are you doing in tokyo? I was thinking going do broadcast design in Osaka or Tokyo but cannot decide myself to quit my job and make the move... my wife is japanese, you know... (watashi wa nihongo ga skoshi anashimass... is there a way to work in english there?)

Ieie douitashimashite.

Although I haven't born here, my parents are japaneses. Now I'm studying 3D here in a senmon.

About getting a job in english here i think it would be a little difficult because (in general) japaneses can't speak english. But I'm not working in broadcasting business so I really have no idea.

Evanfotis; the 4200+ was 1min39, the new 3800+ score is 1min52... I dont see anything wrong there...!?

Check 2a03's score (Athlon 64x2 4400+): 2min 1 second.
There may be something wrong with his PC because he has a lower score than us 4200 and 3800.

[2a03]

Yeh I'm not sure why my AE benchmark was lower than the 4200 because my Cinebench scores are right where they should be for a stock x2 4400... Unless the other x2 scores you collected were from overclocked x2's? Many people OC their x2 and you did ask the participants to state what their CPU's are clocked at so that might be a variable that is throwing off the scores... My x2 4400 is stock and all my voltages are normal I'm not OC'ing anything... Also I am not using the AMD x2 CPU extensions and I am running XP Pro SP1... those might be some other variables affecting the scores... Cinebench is an excellent CPU benchmarking test btw...

http://www.cinebench.com/

http://3dfluff.com/mash/cbtop.php

[evanfotis]

Evanfotis; the 4200+ was 1min39, the new 3800+ score is 1min52... I dont see anything wrong there...!?
I thought I saw in this graph (http://img92.imageshack.us/img92/6623/graph2b4hb.jpg) a X2 4400 (the first one!) scoring 121 seconds.
And the X2 3800 scored 112 seconds. Which is faster... Am I wrong?

BTW It would be nice to update the graph with the latest machine/model scores.

[tfortier]

yes sir baby!

http://img95.imageshack.us/img95/2853/graph39wt.th.jpg (http://img95.imageshack.us/my.php?image=graph39wt.jpg)

http://img95.imageshack.us/img95/8025/graph3b2xo.th.jpg (http://img95.imageshack.us/my.php?image=graph3b2xo.jpg)

need sleepzzzz...

[Yossarian!]

Pentium 4 3.2 2 Gig RAM SATA WinXP
AE 6.5: 2:18 min
AE 7: 2:16 min

Power Mac Dual 2.3 4.5 Gig RAM SATA
AE 6.5: 2:51 min

[furikake]

Unless the other x2 scores you collected were from overclocked x2's?
I'm not overclocking anything. I have no idea how or why would you want to disable Athlon's extensions.

I'll post my PC specs if it helps:

Hardware:
---------
Athlon 64x2 3800+ (Manchester) Socket 939 - 2009.2Mhz* (default, no overclocked)
Cache L1: 64Kb, L2: 512Kb (Cooler CPU Retail)
Abit AN8 Ultra (nForce4)
DDR-SDRAM 2Gb PC3200 CAS 3 - (2 DIMM 1024Mb) Dual Channel (200.9Mhz)
Sapphire ATI Radeon X850XT PE 256Mb
HD Western Digital Raptor 36Gb 10Krpm SATA 1
HD Raid 0 (nVidia SATA RAID) 2HDs Hitachi HDS722525VLSA80 250Gb SATA 1

Software:
---------
Windows XP SP2 32bits
Athlon 64 processor driver installed
After Effects 6.5
some basic tweaking in WinXP.

PD: I cant see those graphs, thumbnails only.
PD2: Next time I think you should try to make a "benchmark file" using only AE default filters. I didn't have that deinterlacer plugin. I've searched and installed it only for this test.

[rawshark]

1 minute 32 seconds

X2 4800+ / 2GB RAM

[furikake]

yes sir baby!

[/url]http://img95.imageshack.us/img95/2853/graph39wt.th.jpg

[url="http://img95.imageshack.us/my.php?image=graph3b2xo.jpg"] (http://img95.imageshack.us/my.php?image=graph39wt.jpg)http://img95.imageshack.us/img95/8025/graph3b2xo.th.jpg

need sleepzzzz...
イエイ! found the links
http://img95.imageshack.us/my.php?image=graph39wt.jpg
http://img95.imageshack.us/my.php?image=graph3b2xo.jpg

[bernieLomax]

1MIN 45 seg

on a:

dual xeon 3.0ghz with 3 GB mem ddr 400

[tfortier]

Download the benchmark AE file here;

http://www.bestsharing.com/files/ms00118560/benchmark_AE_01.aep.html

here a new graph with 4800+ and Dual Xeon 3.0 added...

http://img451.imageshack.us/img451/3830/graph34ee.th.jpg (http://img451.imageshack.us/my.php?image=graph34ee.jpg)

It will be interresting to see result from new Core Duo machines, mac and pc...

anyone?!

[Diazepam]

1min 45secs.

Opteron 165 running at 2.0Ghz, 2Gb Ram.

[wellsichris]

1 min 23 seconds
on a AMD X2 4400 overclocked to 2.7 ghz

[tfortier]

Thanks Diazepam! :)

WOW, Wellsichris, this is awsome! is it really stable? we talk about workstation here.. I presume the 4200 can do similar score, it will be kinda nasty to get such high score from such inexpensive cpu... that 83 sec really kick some ass! mmm... spending less on cpu but more on cooling and power... Is it expensive?

I was planning to upgrade to a 4200+ next month but wanted to stick with my 4x512mb Ram... 2x1gb is probably better for that... no? mmm... and maybe I should get a 3800 and OC it to like 2.4, I t will give good score at a premium price!

mmm... why im so cheap suddenly..?! exitation probably...

thanks for post your scores guys!

[wellsichris]

I actually spent about $350 on a liquid cooling kid :) so it was cheaper than the fx60 but was a big pain to install. I have my video card, mobo, and cpu all liquid cooled and a dual 120mm radiator with fans on the intake and the out. I didn't like how a lot of radiators stick out the back so I got a big case and moded it to put the radiator inside blowing out the back of course. it toke like two days. but yeah it's really stable. I haven't had any issues at 2.7 when I go higher i get into problems. the cpu actually doesn't break 44 c all the temps are great but I can't on my mobo up the voltage to keep it stable at a higher clock speed. I also got really good memory and have that OC'd. so I basically it's a huge pain and is only like $200 cheaper than an fx60 with cheaper ram, but it is really quick. I haven't tried the 4200 so I don't know how well it overclocks. a lot of people have been ovclocking the 3800. just make sure if you haven't overclocked before you read up on it and make sure you keep it cool. small steps.
anyway good luck.

chris

[evanfotis]

Hey Chris! You just gotta post some picts of your rig in the workstation thread!

Anyone with a Core-Duo around?
I'm curious how either the MAc or Win version of it would stack up, especially after the dissapointing Pentium M scores...

[motoxpress]

Hey Chris! You just gotta post some picts of your rig in the workstation thread!

Anyone with a Core-Duo around?
I'm curious how either the MAc or Win version of it would stack up, especially after the dissapointing Pentium M scores...


The Duo Core Laptops do very well in AE. Here (http://digitalproducer.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=38515) is a recent test of the Dell M90. It should be very encouraging for those looking into one of these as a desktop replacement. The Macbook Pro should also fair really well...once Adobe delivers a UB version of AE.

-gl

[wellsichris]

I don't know where the workstation thread is but for evanfotis here is a picture of my system. it's hard to really get how big this case is but you can see the hard drives so it gives you a bite of an idea. and then the 120 mm fans on the radiator. another good reason to get this case is it's the only one I know of that can hold 12 internal hard drives :)

lots of fun
chris

p.s. sorry for the delay in posting a picture. I have been swamped with work.

[Diazepam]

Ok, this is wierd but I just tried the same benchmark file on AE 7 and it now takes 2mins 20secs (with my Opty 165 now OC-ed at 2.5Ghz) to render when it took only 1min 45secs (when my 165 was only OC-ed at 2.0Ghz) on 6.5.

[tfortier]

???


weird... I should try with the AE7 demo...

then let say the benchmark is for 6.5 only!

[tfortier]

Hi!

Im sure now a lot of you guys and girls (who know!) have their nice new little macbook and macbook pro!

Lets share with us the power of those littles beasts

here a new link to the AE 6.5 benchmark test! (ae7 look more slow)

http://www.mytempdir.com/769265

cant wait to see that and how much my poor little centrino 1.8 suck! ;P (but gotta 6600! nah nah!! not you not you!)

many thanks

ps: you can watch the latest graphic on page 4. Best performance vs price is x2 4200+ for AE!

[lollygag]

58 seconds..

http://lollys.org/58.JPG



1x K8WE
2x Opty 285's
2x 7900 GTX's
4x 1G DDR 400
vaugley....

lolly Ü

[tfortier]

ouch! ouch! ouch! :eek:

look like we have a new winner!

im going eat korean food and will update the graph after!

[cooperunionstud]

1st try @ 1: 46:
2nd try @ 1: 44:
turned off some background applications ex (ie, aim..)
3rd try @ 1: 43:
relogin
4th try @ 1:42:

amd 4200x2
2gb ram
geforce 7800gt
600GB harddrive

[Jaycee77]

You guys think you are so cool with your fast render times....I decided to set the record for slowest render time :D.

My poor little beat up Pentium 4 laptop with a poultry 384MB RAM weighed in at a hefty 11:46 minute render time. (TrillainPro and FF running in the background)

I think I nearly killed my computer, lol. I really, really need to finish building my new computer that has been sitting in my office corner so I can actually run with the cool guys around here ;).

I might add that in that 11:46 minutes I was able to make 2 PBJ sandwiches and move my laundry from the washer to dryer with time to spare...let's see any of you with your fast computers do that, lol.

[cooperunionstud]

overclocked my 4200 x2 from 2.2ghz to 2.42ghz

benchmarked 1.33sec

:)

[cooperunionstud]

overclocked again to 2.53 ghz on stock fan

now benching 1.29 sec :thumbsup:

[cooperunionstud]

rendered again with background application off.

1:28 seconds.!


i am now tied with the QUAD G5!

:twisted:

[cooperunionstud]

i benched the computers at my work place as well.
apple g5 dual 2.0ghz . 2:59sec
pentium4 2.8ghz dual core 1:51sec

:shrug:

[2a03]

I just ran the test on my 17" Macbook Pro... I ran the test on the XP side of course...

Macbook Pro 17" 2.16ghz Core Duo
2gb RAM
1min 33sec
1min 16sec w/Nucleo

[cooperunionstud]

that means your duo core 2.16ghz is = to a 4600x2?

wow,

[tfortier]

updated graph with Macbook pro!

http://img479.imageshack.us/img479/20/graph63wp.th.jpg (http://img479.imageshack.us/my.php?image=graph63wp.jpg)

benchmark file is here:

http://www.mytempdir.com/769265

thanks guys for post your scores! :thumbsup:
cant wait to see conroe!:love:

[evanfotis]

Just tried it on my new baby, the Sager 5760V running AE 7Pro:
1 min 36sec or 96 sec.
Specs:
WinXP Pro
Core Duo @ 2Ghz
2GB Ram
gforce 7900 gtx 512mb
60Gb sata @ 7200rpm

[parallax]

I just ran the test on my 17" Macbook Pro... I ran the test on the XP side of course...

Macbook Pro 17" 2.16ghz Core Duo
2gb RAM
1min 33sec
1min 16sec w/Nucleo

I was going to post "no ****ing way" but then i read the XP part.

[tfortier]

mmm... look like I will have to start a new graph for AE 7!

[monovich]

can't download file. is it gone?

[tfortier]

errr... probably... its always temporary file upload site...

wait, Ill try to find it on my job computer...

[tfortier]

nop, I dont have it here... I will upload it tonight... sorry

If somebody know a premanent upload site, I will be happy to ear it!

[tfortier]

New download link, same good old benchmark!

http://www.mytempdir.com/896455

hey, what about proving your new conroe comp are the best by running this scene and post the result?!

from this link, the extreme is suppose to beat a quad 280 opteron by far... wow!
http://www.digitalvideoediting.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=53163-1 (http://www.digitalvideoediting.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=53163-1)

please try to run it in 6.5... but 7 is ok too!

[SalaTar]

2.35 on a M65 (1.66 duo) with 4 gigs of mem ae7/gridiron

my bad

1:45 on a dual xeon 2.4 4 gigs mem 6.5/nucleo

[dmeyer]

Powerbook G4 1.67ghz, 2GB ram, AE7: 7:37

Same with Entourage also running: 7:59

Gotta love that Adobe optimization for X!

I've got a quad 3.0 Mac Pro on the way...will test when received.

[parallax]

Can yo lot also do an OpenGL render?

my system: X2 3800 2 GB RAM:
- 2:55 no nucleo/gridiron
- 0:23 on 7600 GS

[cooperunionstud]

Thats Really Slow For A Dual Core System Like Yours, You Sure You Are Doing It Right?. You Should Get Sub 2 Minute At Least

[parallax]

Thats Really Slow For A Dual Core System Like Yours, You Sure You Are Doing It Right?. You Should Get Sub 2 Minute At Least

I know, i've been experiencing some speed issues on an otherwise clean install. I don't know why.

[parallax]

I can't for the life of me understand why it is taking this long. Check my CPU usage during the render:

http://img169.imageshack.us/img169/5402/cpuws7.jpg

It doesn't get above 54%. Is there some patch or update available for either XP or AE7?

Here are my specs:
-X2 3800+
-2gb RAM (667)
-OS drive: Raptor 36GB
-scratch on a different drive
-relatively new install, few apps

Am i missing something that can have THAT dramatic an effect on performance? I doubt it.

[alvin-cgi]

Hi Parallax, what is your machine spec?? eg. motherboard?

[parallax]

MSI K9N Platinum. I'm going to try installing the AMD hotfix, maybe it's the energy saving feature in AM2 CPU's that's killing the performance.

[parallax]

I installed the optimizer, AMD driver, Hotfix. Nothing. No improvement.
Are you guys using Nucleo? What do you CPU usage graphs look like?

It would be a shame if i'm throwing away 50% performance.

[Forrest]

I bought a new Dell laptop to replace my old one and just had a chance to run the After Effects benchmark project on it.

New
Dell e1505 Laptop
Intel® Core™ 2 Duo processor T7200
2.00GHz/4MB Cache/667MHz FSB
512MB of Ram (I have more on order)
Render Time 1:20


Old
Dell 6000 Laptop
Intel® Pentium® M Processor 750
1.86GHz/2MB Cache/533MHz FSB
1.5GB of Ram

Render Time 3:14


Oh Yeah! Over twice as fast!

I can't remember the exact time, but I'm pretty sure this is faster then my quad G5 at work.

[SalaTar]

forrest this link may interest you :D

http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.php/HCL_10.4.6/Portables#Dell_Inspiron_E1505

[DocLeone]

Took 56sec on Conroe E6600 overclocked to 3.0Ghz, 2Gb ram, AE 7

[Garduna_Knight]

could someone link up the benchmark file again,
thanks in advance

[SalaTar]

I just dropped a core 2 duo 2.33 into my m65 (yes its a socket in this laptop) could someone link file again?

[tfortier]

the benchmark scene is now here:

http://www.evilshare.com/217ec2da-dd4d-1029-b2ec-00a0c993e9d6 (http://evilshare.com/217ec2da-dd4d-1029-b2ec-00a0c993e9d6)

hope to see core duo 2 soon!

and dont bother going back with 6.5... after effects 7 is just fine now!

[Garduna_Knight]

sweet! thanks a lot, i'll definately be benching my boxx laptop with this later in the weekend :)

[mattmos]

dual woodcrest 5160 3Ghz
4Gb ram (3Gb switch on)
XP pro 32-bit
AE7

39 secs

[tfortier]

HAHAHA! 39sec... wonderful! cant believe it! me im curious about a e6600 not overclocked... for see what I will get soon..! ;P

[SalaTar]

2.35 on a M65 (1.66 duo) with 4 gigs of mem ae7/gridiron



same machine with 2.33 core 2
59 sec

BTW:
Bench File (http://www.salatar.com/aebench/benchmark_AE_01.aep)

word doc chart (http://www.salatar.com/aebench/cpu.doc)


http://www.salatar.com/aebench/cpu.jpg

[Garduna_Knight]

Athlon 64 X2 4200+
2Gig DDR 400
NVidia Quadro FX 2500M 512mb
RAID 0
Win XP Pro
AE7

5 min/40sec

why on earth did it take so long O_O!

[J.ROAM]

Mac Pro Quad 2.66
ATI X1900XT
2GB ram

2min 32sec on the un-native AE7... Looks like I will install Windows on that thing...

[tfortier]

http://img146.imageshack.us/img146/2556/jeromechristmaspartyll8.th.jpg (http://img146.imageshack.us/my.php?image=jeromechristmaspartyll8.jpg)
Jérome at Buzz christmas party
wouaaaa Jérôme, you finally found a girlfriend just your size!


shit... thats suck big time... no way somebody can work in after effects on a mac pro without xp right now... its just as fast as my old p4...

cant wait you try it with xp! from Mattmos result, dual woodcrest look amazing!

thanks Sala Tar for the graph! its a laptop you got?! I was thinking laptop cpu are more slow but yours look like a winner!

[SalaTar]

looks like Adobe may be coming on strong with a few new releases for OSX so in 3 months it may start to see benifits of your new (mac) pc hardware


btw if you see mistakes in graph its my fault ..tell me
dell m65<see sig>

[SalaTar]

Id like to see the dual 5160 bench with Gridiron.(Grid iron is cool till you hit that plugin it hates)

[Garduna_Knight]

Athlon 64 X2 4200+
2Gig DDR 400
NVidia Quadro FX 2500M 512mb
RAID 0
Win XP Pro
AE7

5 min/40sec

does anyone know why that even with my current configurations, that the rendering time takes so long? any ways to perhaps get it to go faster? thanks in advance

[mattmos]

Id like to see the dual 5160 bench with Gridiron.(Grid iron is cool till you hit that plugin it hates)

dual woodcrest 5160 3Ghz
4Gb ram (3Gb switch on)
XP pro 32-bit
AE7 with GridIron Pro 1.0.4 (trial version)

30 secs :)


Which Plugin does it hate? This seems like a very useful addition to AFX and I'll probably recommend it to my company - has anyone used it with a farm? Any problems people experience?

[SalaTar]

2d3™ SteadyMove™ Pro

Particle Playground

"Which Plugin does it hate? "
anything that looks at other frames to resovle current one.

Digital Buena Interference
Feedback

Twixtor™

Time Stretch

Video Gogh™

Algolith Noise Reduction (DNR, MTNR,

MNR and MNR2)

Film Fix

[J.ROAM]

shit... thats suck big time... no way somebody can work in after effects on a mac pro without xp right now... its just as fast as my old p4...

cant wait you try it with xp! from Mattmos result, dual woodcrest look amazing!

thanks Sala Tar for the graph! its a laptop you got?! I was thinking laptop cpu are more slow but yours look like a winner!Nice guy up there...
But I may not be able to test the Mac Pro with XP, I'm selling it and will be back to my old Dual 1GHz G4! :eek:

[tfortier]

is anybody have a e6600 cpu at stock speed and can test the AE bench scene right now??? im buying my dell comp tomorow and wanna be sure im not taking the e6700 at the place...

If its beat the 75sec frontier, then im in business!

link to the benchmark here;

http://www.bestsharing.com/files/wh0uI74200760/benchmark%20AE_01.aep.html


thanks!
t

[tfortier]

Dell Dual Xeon 2.6 (quad) just like the mac I think... with AE 6.5;

44sec!!!

wonder how the 3.0ghz will score!

[tfortier]

double post... how can I delete this?

[cooperunionstud]

can you get the file up again ?
i wanna benchmark my 8 core mac pro

[tfortier]

Here the Benchmark up again but on my own web space now;

http://www.thierryfortier.com/AEbenchmark.html

take a look at my new reel on the ugly temp main page;

http://www.thierryfortier.com

thanks
t

[cooperunionstud]

33 seconds with mac pro 8 core on windows XP. AE 7.0

can't wait to test it out with AE CS3!

[cooperunionstud]

btw. yur reel is awesome! Do you like doing film work more or commercial work more? seems like you have tons of commercial work. My only crtique is that your reel is kinda long? i would consider breaking it up into two pieces. or two different categories

[tfortier]

yeah you are right! but the film work its kinda dated... my 2004 demo was just a compilation - 30 minutes of footages one after one! then for that, my last reel is pretty quick! ;P

Im in Osaka, Japan since 2 month now and will search for job when I finish my remaining freelance contracts. A kind of holiday for me right now!

that 33sec score is amazing! you can get gridiron demo for see what cs3 will do... mattmos did 30sec on a quad with grid enabled...

ciao
t

[cooperunionstud]

how did you end up in japan? do you have connections there? are you fench canadian?.. also how old are you where did you goto school?

[tfortier]

Lots of ???!
Im 30 since yesterday! French Canadian from Montreal! I learned my softwares by myself... just like teachers do! ;P on a good old powermac 8500 150mhz!
im in japan cause my wife and kids are japanese! I have few friends in tokyo but im in Osaka, my wife hometown. I still adjust myself right now and we are searching for appartements but luckily my Montreal contacts still giving me lots of contracts here. its pretty easy with ftp to share files! Human connections here still minimal, I have an agent who know the best companies in broadcast design and make few friends in the fields but thats it! I need to finish my own contracts before making a move and attack the market here... Tokyo should be the main target then..!

wish me good luck!

[cooperunionstud]

happy birthday. i am very impressed with your reel? How do you like the japanese commercial market so far? i've been to japan before and their commercials are very "tidy". do you feel like its easy to fit in? also, hows your japanese?

[MickyG]

Hi all, are we still taking benchmarks?

39 seconds, no extra plugins used

Dell Precision 690
Dual Quad-Core @ 2.4ghz
3GB Ram
Quadro FX 4500 512mb Ram
XP Service Pack 2
Pretty happy with that:bounce:

[MickyG]

Sorry, I tried it again with the Gridiron Pro trial...

22 seconds:thumbsup:

[cooperunionstud]

you want to try it again with AEcs3? If you have one at hand that is. Should be interesting to see the difference between cs3 and 7.0 with nucleo.

[MickyG]

Sorry, at the moment I don't have access to CS3.

If I do upgrade, then the benchmark will be the first thing I run!

[cooperunionstud]

28 seconds with AEcs3 under osx with multiprocessing turned on.
38 seconds with AEcs3 under osx with multiprocessing turned off.
27 seconds with AEcs3 under osx with multiprocessing turned on and nucleo pro trial on
30 seconds with Aecs3 under osx with multiprocessing turned off and nucleo pro trial on
33 seconds with Aecs3 under winxp32 with multiprocessing turned on.
32 seconds with Aecs3 under winxp32 with multiprocessing turned off.
Funny how nucleo is faster!

[MickyG]

Just tested my new laptop, a Dell M1710

1 minute 12 seconds, no plugins used.

I'll install the gridiron trial soon and see how it goes.


M1710
Dual Core 2.33
2GB Ram
Geforce 7950 GTX 512mb RAM

[tfortier]

dell e520 E6600 2.4ghz, 2gb of ram, ae7 under vista home premium;

1 min 7sec!

not bad for a bargain computer!

[Acts7]

I rendered at 1min 13sec

Running
WinVista HmPrem
2.13Ghz Core2Duo (6420)
2G Ram
geForce 8500GT
AE 7 Pro

[cooperunionstud]

new macbook pro with peryn processors
core 2 duo @ 2.4ghz.
2gb ram
59sec

not bad. for a lappy.

[lollygag]

I posted My old machine 2x285's 4G Ram 2 years ago @ 58 seconds..

My new box 2x5472's, 8G Ram, QuadroFX 5600, XP x64 today...

27 seconds multiprocessing off

14 seconds multiprocessing on :)

[aglick]

3DBOXX 8400SE
3.2Ghz/1600fsb
CS3/XP64/8GB RAM

11 seconds

;)

Adam
BOXXlabs

[cooperunionstud]

i think you just broke a my mac pro record....:sad:

[enian82]

Hi
Dell Precision PWS670
Xeon 2.8 2.8 / 2GB Ram
x64 / CS3
Benchmark 1:49
cheers

[AnimAitor]

Hewlett-Packard xw4550 workstation
Dual-Core AMD Opteron
Processor 1216 2.40 GHz
2GB RAM
XP SP2
AE CS3
Render time after a fresh bootup: 1'29.

Adam that BOXX of yours is awesome!! Do yo ship to Japan? Do you also sell your machines OC? Dollar is pretty weak and I need a new machine at home...

[woutb]

q6600 2.4 ghz
8800 gt
CS3
4 GB ram
24 seconds..

should try after reboot, comp's been on for 2 days.

[tfortier]

Hey woutb, is your q6600 overclocked? my old e6600 did 1min7sec...

I didnt tried with multiprocessing enabled though...

Still darn impressive!

I will try with my more recent e6850...

[HardwareGuru]

CAD2 DQX-SE

DUAL X5482 3.2GHz Xeons (1600FSB)
8GB RAM

11 Seconds.


http://www.cad2.com

[cooperunionstud]

14 seconds,

windows 64bit 6gb ram
mac pro dual 3.0ghz (8 core)

[aglick]

9 seconds!!!

3DBOXX SE (http://www.boxxtech.com/)
2 "enhanced performance" intel QX9774 core2Quad
XP64
8GB 800Mhz FBDIMM


You know you want this.

[Vilandra]

Yes, I do want one of those. Is there any chance of some technical numbers, as far as processor speed? Or perhaps some cinebench 10 results?

Ive been wanting to know more about this "Special Edition" Boxx.

[aglick]

hey -

send me a private email and i will shoot you the screen capture from our last Cinebench 10 test.

the Score was < 29,600 CB-CPU

[aglick]

aglick@boxxtech.com

[Vilandra]

Awesome numbers! Does it come with a 5 point safty harness, and roll cage?

[aglick]

nope - but it does come with a BOXX t-shirt...

;)

[biliousfrog]

nope - but it does come with a BOXX t-shirt...

;)

....that doubles up as a tent if you're a short, skinny git like me :D

[AnimAitor]

sure it can't compete with Adam's machine but my Lenovo Thinkpad W700 laptop (QX9300, 4 Gigs of DDR3 Ram, Quadro 3700M) renders the benchmark in 23 seconds. Vista x64 + AE CS4.

[DVmaker]

34 sec on Mac Pro 8 core 3.0 Ghz 5GB ram. in CS3
*I don't have the fieldskit deinterlace plugin.

I probably should reboot.. uptime is at 19 days!!!

--Edit--

After fresh restart it crossed the finish line at 27 sec.

[alaa ahmed]

37 sec on AMD X4 9550 quad core 2.2, 4G of ram winxp 64 , cs4

[AnimAitor]

wow, how come 8 cores at 3.0 GHz and 5Gigs from a Mac Pro render slower than 4 cores at 2.5 GHz and 4 Gigs on a laptop... maybe due to the smaller size (45nm) and larger L2 cache (12MB)?

I guess Intel did a great job on the QX9300.

[DVmaker]

wow, how come 8 cores at 3.0 GHz and 5Gigs from a Mac Pro render slower than 4 cores at 2.5 GHz and 4 Gigs on a laptop... maybe due to the smaller size (45nm) and larger L2 cache (12MB)?

I guess Intel did a great job on the QX9300.

Yeah, that is interesting.

[olson]

I've got a dual socket with quad core Opteron system at home, when I get there I'll render and post the results. Cheers!

[aglick]

just a quick reminder that it's important to make sure that the multiprocessing and memory allocation settings are optimized in AE before you run the tests.

[olson]

I've got a dual socket with quad core Opteron system at home, when I get there I'll render and post the results. Cheers!

The render ran in 25 seconds on my system. Its an Asus KFN32D-SLI with two Opteron 2352 processors (2.1GHz and quad core), 16GB DDR2 (ECC and registered with ECC enabled), and two WD Raptors (150GB models) on RAID 0. Cheers!

Just ran it again and got 22 seconds. Since its such a short benchmark (relatively speaking) it might not be that accurate. It also doesn't take into account disk bandwidth and other factors that would definitely make a difference in an actual project. Something with some large files and more frames would be a better benchmark. Should we make a new benchmark that's more reflective of actual projects?

[aglick]

As long as you have a fairly new SATA drive, hard drive performance should not significantly affect the "score" of this benchmark test.

This benchmark basically removes hard drives as a factor, and ONLY measures raw processing power.

That's what makes it a good test of CPU (and memory) performance.

Certainly, under real-world compositing tasks (especially uncompressed HD and 2K frames) the performance of your storage array will greatly affect interactivity and final renderring speed in any compositing application.

[tfortier]

Hey Olson, this benchmark was like 3min at the begin... its amazing how technologie have evolved since!

that 9sec score is amazing!

im gonna run it on my i7 when I receive it.

[chrisbyk]

Dell Studio Xps
core i7 920
6gb of Ram,
Vista 64 and CS4

The benchmark took 17 seconds

[rocknroller]

MacPro Dual 3.2 Octa / 10 GB Ram/ CS3

16 Seconds

[olson]

Hey Olson, this benchmark was like 3min at the begin... its amazing how technologie have evolved since!

that 9sec score is amazing!

im gonna run it on my i7 when I receive it.

That's my point exactly. Its no longer an accurate benchmark with results being less than ten seconds. A one second variation in the elapsed time information from After Effects could mean plus or minus 10% results, not very accurate at all.

Since we're on the topic of benchmarking After Effects I figure an updated benchmark that takes into consideration other factors and is more accurate would be a welcome thing. Cheers!

[evanfotis]

I believe that Brian Maffitts AE Total benchmark, while quite dated, can even nowadays be useful and accurate as it still takes time to render!
Luckily not as much time as they used to:-)
That and the Nightflight aep, used to render for ages...

I just can't seem to find them online at their original location, but I do have them on my hdd, so if anyone is intersted could send them or upload a link.

[aglick]

The AE benchmarks listed above are great. I use them all the time in the lab.

However, AE benchmark tests aren't as accurate for measuring 3D rendering speed as something like Cinebench or other tests using modern 3D raytrace rendering engines.

[evanfotis]

I would certainly agree!
...dunno why this thread is listed in the hardware sub-forum instead of the AE one, to be honest.
Each application more or less has its own "specialized benchmark" which tests the pc's performance on its own specific tasks anyhow..

[parallax]

For experiments' sake, i upgraded my computer without installing XP (32) freshly. Just updating drivers (i know, stupid, but it worked surprisingly well all apps are running)

New kit:

Core i7 920
12GB RAM
GTX 260
Same drives ( 2 x raptor 36 GB, oldies, 2 x seagate 7200.10 320 GB)

AE CS3: 21 seconds.

Now on to a clean install.

[parallax]

Clean Vista 64 install, new render-time: 16 seconds, down from 21.

[olson]

Clean Vista 64 install, new render-time: 16 seconds, down from 21.

Dang! Any overclock on that? Thanks for sharing the results.

[nitrocom]

Hey, the link is dead, could smone replace it ?

[parallax]

No overclocking done, stock speed.

Also, no bright neon lighting ;)

[earwax69]

Well... its quite amazing. A 1000$ quad i7 give the same speed as a 6000$ Mac Pro in AE. I know what my next computer will be. You could even do better by overclocking a bit.

[BLINDSKUNK]

Heres a link from a previous page
http://www.salatar.com/aebench/benchmark_AE_01.aep

I hope to run this on my machine later today :-
i7 920 clocked to 3.5Ghz (12G x 1600 RAM) - with and without Nucleos Pro 2

[AnimAitor]

Sweet! Can't wait for the results.

[BLINDSKUNK]

Appart from there being a 3rd party plugin,which I had to disable that layer ...

Looking at about 12sh seconds.

I need to do the whole thing In a more controlled.

:-) I do love this new machine - I did a serious particle piece recently - look up YouTube "blindskunk oxygene 4"

This took 8 hours on my old qx6700 - 4 core

Took 30 minutes on this new machine ...

Blindskunk...

[cgbeige]

the problem with these AE benchmarks is that they are built to take advantage of multiple CPUs and most of the filters and stuff in AE are terrible at using multiple cores. Just a warning - don't make hardware purchasing decisions based on these benchmarks. If you scroll down on this page, you can see some of my benchmarks:

http://arstechnica.com/apple/reviews/2009/04/266ghz-8-core-mac-pro-review.ars/7

That's my machine and I hate using AE at all with an 8-core hyperthreaded machine since it's often using just one CPU for renders. Nuke on the other hand...

[BLINDSKUNK]

Yes agreed...

I just wanted some starting point to check my system...
my replace mend SDD drive came today, which has been replaced by a GSKIL Falcon 128G
wow this machine is fast now (the last SSD I had was utter crap - 1st gen .

All a bit of fun too...!!! (like your results, will read in depth over a Cuppa now !)

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