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New OctaneX for iPadOS 17 with 2023.1 features has been released on AppStore:

Nice to see split view is now supported, cheers.

Small bug. When using an iPad with an external display and when OctaneX is in standalone mode and OctaneX is covering the whole screen of the external display, most/all of the controls are unresponsive.

Resizing the app to be smaller makes the controls work again, as does exiting standalone mode.

Probably not something most people are going to hit, but that would be my preferred Octane/iPad setup if it worked.

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Also, when in the default UI view (not in standalone) the Preferences popover doesn't display anything when using fullscreen on an external display.

(note, I'm talking about stretching the Octane window to fill the whole screen, not tapping the 'fullscreen magnifying glass' in the app)

[spybreak]

Now that the embargo is lifted, I managed to get some numbers for those interested in the M3 Max MacBook Pros.

I got a friend with a review unit to run one of my scenes and the volumetric benchmark scene Beppe prepared for benchmarking. Not sure if Octane 2023.1 is using the hardware raytracing on the M3 chips, but still, it gives us an idea of the performance improvements.

Results:

Octane Standalone 2023.1 / N64 Render:

Nvidia RTX 4090 (desktop): 42s
Nvidia RTX 3090 (desktop): 1m00
MacBook Pro M3 Max: 1m45s
MacBook Pro M1 Max: 5m20s

About 3x faster from M1 Max to M3 Max



Octane Standalone 2023.1 / OctaneXBench_VolumeDenoiser:

Nvidia RTX 4090 (desktop): 4s
Nvidia RTX 3090 (desktop): 7s
MacBook Pro M3 Max: 15s
MacBook Pro M1 Max: 30s

[davidvonbehr]

Hi spybreak,

thank you so much for posting your render times!

And by the way: very nice scene! I still got my real N64 with Ocarina of time and will NEVER EVER sell it

[bepeg4d]

@spybreak, thanks for sharing M3 Max result, as expected, it is equal to M2 Ultra!
Upcoming M3 Ultra seems pretty promising!

ciao,
Beppe

[spybreak]

@spybreak, thanks for sharing M3 Max result, as expected, it is equal to M2 Ultra!
Upcoming M3 Ultra seems pretty promising!

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ciao,
Beppe

No problem!

Jules mentioned on twitter there are further optimisations for the M3 coming so hopefully you can update that chart with a better score soon!

[shaddam]

How many cores in that M3 Max result? 30 or 40 ect? as the Mac website, when selecting the M3 max there are two variants available for purchase!

[spybreak]

How many cores in that M3 Max result? 30 or 40 ect? as the Mac website, when selecting the M3 max there are two variants available for purchase!

That is a 40 core machine

[LeoSch]

Hi Otoy / aoktar,

I have a question about 2023.1 for Cinema 4d. As a Prime subscription user (Free Trial Offer) I'd like to try it, however, in the https://render.otoy.com/shop/primex.php download section, there is still version 2022.1.2 R3. Will 2023.1 R5 made available there?

Thanks in advance and thanks for the great work

[shtl_1]

Hi guys !
What version should I use on a M1 under Ventura 13.4 (22F66),
If possible cinema4d 2024.1 ?
Trying to open last year scene for update and it crashes.
Currently trying with "OctaneRender-Prime-for-C4D-2023.1_R4_OSX".
Thank you !

EDIT:
OK, copy pasted into a new scene and it's not crashing anymore, sorry for this post, you can delete it to clean the thred.