Hi,
I just installed a new RTX 2080Ti card and benchmarked it with OctaneBench 4.0. I scored 295, which is pretty good for an unoptimized (no custom overclocks) card, and a healthy 159% bump in performance over my Quadro P4000’s score of 114. But when I render a 1M polygon test scene at 4K resolution with the LightWave 2019.0.3 plugin (OctaneRender version 2018.1.3), the RTX 2080Ti takes 75 seconds vs. 156 seconds for the P4000–a much more modest increase in performance of 108%.
The 4K scene test runs are identical in all respects: same model, same materials, same Octane render target settings. So I’m left to wonder, how should I interpret these results? Is the LW plugin slower than the standalone OctaneRender? Are the benchmark scenes using render target settings different from my 4K test scene that don’t scale linearly? I am thrilled with OctaneRender’s performance; I am just trying to understand why Im getting a 108% bump in performance with my new GPU in LightWave versus the expected 159% bump in render speed. Thanks!