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We're obviously going to disagree, and I have no intention to convince you.

All I can say is that I'm deeply frustrated with Otoy because, at least where I teach, students are not going to be able to run out and buy Apple Silicon nor is the college going to replace Mac Pros that were supposed to have a working life longer than 18 months. I'm also sensitive to the reality that very few of them have or will be buying tokens. Progressively narrowing the number of supported devices, requiring investments in new equipment (even if that cost could be amortized over time by being cheaper to run), and then still have to supplement the new purchases with cloud-based rendering? RNDR may be a good render farm, but it certainly isn't democratizing things for my students.

Otoy needs a better answer, and a better roadmap, than what they've shown so far.

[james_conkle]

Does anyone know of a place that is recording Octane X benchmark scores? I know the official OB isn't on 2022 yet, but there was a chess scene going around for a while.

[bepeg4d]

Hi,
here is the link for downloading the chess scene:
http://render.otoy.com/downloads/Octane ... oSuite.zip

You need to open with OctaneX Standalone the chess_set_procedural.ocs scene with only one GPU enabled in Preferences/Devices, then click on the Render Target PT node, and share a screenshot.

Here is the latest chart, lower results are faster, time in seconds:

ciao,
Beppe

[cjadams]

Does anyone else have an issue where Octane control panel doesn't remember the GPU is checked.. so that every time when trying to render it fails "NO gpu selected"... no matter how i check it.. it never sticks..
Is there a preference file i can kill? that might be locked or something?
octane X PR14
Cinema 4d R26

[bepeg4d]

Hi cjadams,

please close c4d, then try to delete the oct.dat file, at the following path, the c4doctane preferences will be reset to default, and a new oct.dat file will be created on next c4d start:
/Users/UserName/Library/Preferences/Maxon/Maxon Cinema 4D R2X_XXXXXXX/prefs/oct.dat

ciao,
Beppe

[snahbah]

Hi,
here is the link for downloading the chess scene:
http://render.otoy.com/downloads/Octane ... oSuite.zip

You need to open with OctaneX Standalone the chess_set_procedural.ocs scene with only one GPU enabled in Preferences/Devices, then click on the Render Target PT node, and share a screenshot.

Here is the latest chart, lower results are faster, time in seconds:

64627A92-3A81-4EB8-9D68-660FD6569257.jpeg

ciao,
Beppe

16" Intel MBP with 4 x eGPUs and 1 internal
Chess Scene = 4 seconds

https://jmp.sh/REkQME2

Here are the 4 eGPUs connected (2 x 6900 + 2 x 5700):
https://jmp.sh/aalnHKa

Hope this is useful to someone.

It's a shame that Intel Macs are no longer supported as they are faster than M1 Ultras by a VERY long way

Looks like a PC build is next when the 4090s come out. Apple seems to have made a mistake here

[mitchino]

In that chart are the M1 Ultra and Max running the latest version or using Rosetta?

Looks to me like the M1 Ultra isn't much slower than an Intel Mac Pro with one decent (6800 or 6900) graphics card. What do you mean 'they are faster by a VERY long way?

[snahbah]

You didn’t even read my post, did you?

4 seconds for the chess scene. Beat that with an M1 Ultra. It doesn’t matter what you do to it, you won’t even get close.

My Intel Mac smokes an M1 Ultra - by a VERY VERY long way.

I go as far as to say, an M1 Mac is pretty terrible next to an Intel Mac with a couple of cards and an embarrassment next to a PC with a couple of 3090s. And anyone considering an M1 Mac for this sort of work should think very hard before they spend any money.

[teteerck]

Hi! With Mac OS Ventura around the corner (hopefully) This same build should still working?

[bepeg4d]

Please stay with Monterey for now.
Ventura is not supported yet, it has a completely different Apple Metal driver, so OctaneX must be rewritten.

ciao,
Beppe