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Does monitor size matter when comparing these bench scenes? Because, Jaberwocky's cards do differ from mine in performance.

BlueBread wrote:Does monitor size matter when comparing these bench scenes?

No, monitor size has nothing to do with performance, but render size would matter (if it was different).

thanks to tuts3d and BlueBread for posting your results, unfortunately the pt test can't be correctly compared between the demo and the 1.24.3 that has different maxdepth settings and alphashadows enabled.
maybe tuts3d could redo the pt benchmark with maxdepth to 8 and alphashadows disabled
ciao beppe

The only thing about display that affects the cards is the resolution, if you are using just 1 card for both display and rendering.The resolution eats into the on board memory of the card before octane has a chance to load it's scene.In my case as i have both a 24" - 1920 x 1200 & a 17" - 1280x1024 twin screen set up going then bang goes 300mb of my 1GB before Octane even loads a scene.Another reason , if one was needed to get a 2nd card and keep one just for display.

Thanks Beppe for pointing that out I didn't even noticed those difference in parameters. Will redo the test this evening.

Thanks

Chiming in with my own benchmark results for a GTX 560 Ti:

MSI N560GTX-Ti Twin Frozr II (1 GB)
[beta 2.43, v266.66 drivers]
Direct lighting: 7.64 to 7.83 megasamples/sec
Path tracing: 1.87 megasamples/sec

Gtx570 coming today..
i think tomorrow i can post the benchmark with a gtx570 to compare..


But will be with the GTX570 for display and CUDA, don't know what result expect..

Gigabyte GTX 560 TI 1GB OC

Hope you all don't mind the slight diversion here, but I would love some input along these lines. I'm looking to upgrade my computer in the within a month and am wondering which way to go in regard to the video card issue. I'm looking at either a SLI 560 ti 2gb setup or (if they become available) a 580 gtx 3gb. With two 560's you get more cores but with the 580 gtx 3gb you get more vram with the possibility of upgrading later (adding another card) and getting more cores.

So which is more important when rendering with octane? I understand that it would depend on the complexity of the scene, but which would you all lean to when considering this?

Thanks.

Get a GTX 590!