bepeg4d wrote:Hi,
Nvidia GPUs are still greatly faster than AMD or Apple Silicon GPUs, but the great advantage of M1/M2 chip is not in rendering speed, but in the incredible capacity to handle huge complex scenes without issues or slowdowns
I had to work in C4D on a huge complex scene with CAD components on PC Intel/Xeon 96GB of RAM and it was literally a nightmare with continues C4D slowdowns and memory errors!
Then I have moved the scene to mac mini M2 Pro 32GB, and it was a real pleasure, like working with a normal scene with great responsiveness and instant feedback
So the perfect combination is M1/M2 for preparing and editing the scene, and RNDR or Nvidia PC for rendering.
My two cents.
ciao,
Beppe
Agree that working on the Macs would be great. We currently work with older Macs but would like to update them all to new Macs. We use PCs for main rendering (as a mini farm).
But that doesn't mean a comparison of current Mac speeds on latest build, would not be helpful. We would prefer to keep working on Mac, but need to know what kind of interactivity (if any) we would get.
As compared to Nvidia cards on older Macs (with CUDA drivers of course), which mostly means 1080Tis or 2080Tis as the last cards that were able to be used on older Macs.
How does an M1/M2 pro or Studio Ultra compare with 1x 1080Ti? or 2x 2080Ti? If it's worse, there would be no point updating all the Macs. But 2x2080Ti is enough to build scenes with comfortably, and look-dev, with main rendering happening on PC (wow wouldn't Network rendering from Apple Silicon to PC be great here?????? Yes, yes it would, probably years away I expect).
So, if someone could provide some actual benchmarks to compare Apple Silicons with Nvidia times on the same scenes, ideally the Octane Bench scenes, that would be really helpful for us to decide how to go about updating our workstations. Obviously dumping Mac entirely is the "raw power" solution but if we could get decent look-dev ability on a new Mac, we don't need the daily-driver workstation to be the hottest machines in the studio. Save those for the mass rendering.
I hope you understand what I am saying here, because every time I ask for some kind of update or comparison, everyone shouts "DID YOU KNOW NVIDIA WILL ALWAYS BE FASTER". Yes. Of course. My god, really? I had no idea. Gosh.
No, simply we need to understand the trade-offs between systems and some kind of cross-OS Benchmark would be REALLY appreciated from Otoy. But then, I can understand they don't want to publish the comparison, because it IS going to make Mac look weak. But it's so obvious now that Otoy are avoiding it. Just bite the bullet and publish an Apple Silicon version of Octane Bench please.
and you've got the ultimate 3D setup.
