Mbah.Net » spec http://mbah.net Blending life, nature and technology. Mon, 30 Aug 2010 05:57:59 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Spec – Maya 2009 http://mbah.net/2009/11/11/spec-maya-2009/ http://mbah.net/2009/11/11/spec-maya-2009/#comments Thu, 12 Nov 2009 05:10:00 +0000 Stephen http://mbah.net/?p=471 Ran SPEC – Standard Performance Evaluation Benchmark – Tests on my machine

Specs:

MSI NEO3 P45 MOTHERBOARD WITH INTEL CORE 2 QUAD Q8200 2.33Ghz 8Gb RAM, 4Gb Cache

Below are pictures from the Maya Rendering script:

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]]> http://mbah.net/2009/11/11/spec-maya-2009/feed/ 0 GPU – Graphics Processing Unit Upgrade http://mbah.net/2009/07/17/gpu-graphics-processing-unit-upgrade/ http://mbah.net/2009/07/17/gpu-graphics-processing-unit-upgrade/#comments Sat, 18 Jul 2009 02:53:19 +0000 Stephen http://mbah.net/?p=318 Continue reading →]]> Decided to upgrade my main workstation’s Nvidia Quadro FX370 card ($129) to the XFX GTS 250 ($129 – previously $300++). Had to move almost everything around in my existing MSI Neo-6 motherboard. System: Running Vista Ultimate 64bit, 8Gb, Intel Quad core Q8200@2.33Ghz. 550W PSU

Performance difference was significant. Summary and pictures below:

Povray [Previous] 23m 28s 100.83PPS/147456 pixels

Vista – Graphics was lowest base score. Before = 4.1, now its 5.9

3dMark06:  3D  1473 to 11,582  SM2 552 to 4522, SM3 478 to 5436, CPU still the same @ 3331

Currently downloading and will run SPEC/GWPG benchmark and will publish results here.

Viewperf 3dsmax-04 Report  Result:

SPECViewperf 10.0 Report  Weighted Geometric Mean = 6.59

Viewperf maya-02 Report  Viewperf 10.0 Weighted Geometric Mean = 21.35

Composite Result: 74.88 SPECjvm2008 Base ops/m

Nvidia 3D Game benchmark result  52.8fps average for Direct X Area i – Download software from here – Nvidia.

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