thats a nice machine! you said you had a geoforce GTX 960. do you mean 690?
http://www.nvidia.com/object/graphics_cards_buy_now.html http://www.maximumpc.com/article/features/geforce_gtx_690_nvidias_dual-kepler_videocard_benchmarked if so, that is over 3000 cores! On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 11:26 AM, Toonafish <ron...@toonafish.nl> wrote: > scene file : https://dl.dropbox.com/u/4271217/Arnold_Classroom.rar > > I'm rendering on a 6 core i7 3930 overclocked to 4 Ghz, so Arnold is using > 12 threads. With AA set lower the DOF is very noisy. But you're right, > maybe I could lower the diffuse samples a little. > > - Ronald > > > On 2/14/2013 19:11, Steven Caron wrote: > > mind sharing that scene ronald? did you set the AA to 10 because of DOF? > cause on a still image i wouldn't use that high of AA with that high of > diffuse samples. > > as you knew, with more optimizing you probably can get better result. > but octane is pretty awesome to be able to do what its doing for you, and > with the graphics card having sooo many little gpu processors i think it > will always outperform arnold in a scene like this. > > so, how many threads did arnold use? cause if you only have 2 core proc > then i dont see that being entirely fair. i see the value of octane and a > graphics card purchase over an arnold license and a machine with the same > number of processors as in your graphics card. > > s > > > On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 9:34 AM, Toonafish <ron...@toonafish.nl> wrote: > >> Arnold took 2 Hours and 10 minutes with 5 Diffuse bounces and AA set to >> 10. Setting the diffuse bounces to 16 as in Octane was just slowing Arnold >> down too much. >> >> >> https://dl.dropbox.com/u/4271217/Arnold_Classroom_AA10_DiffSamples-7_DiffRays-5_2h-10min.png >> >> Still some fine noise in the DOF, and weird aliasing artifacts in the >> high contrast areas around the windows and the lights. >> >> - Ronald >> >> >> > > > -- > Ronald van Vemden > ----------------------------------------------- > 3D Graphics & Animation > Cyberfish Laboratories | www.cyberfish.nl > Toonafish | www.toonafish.nl > tel. +31(0)20 5289291 > fax +31(0)20 5289292 > email: ron...@toonafish.nl > >
