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Holy Crap, I didn't know Octane on Linux was this fast!
Posted: Fri Jun 25, 2010 4:54 am
by El Burritoh
Last week I was using Windows 7 and a GTS 250. Since then I've upgraded to a GTX 470 and installed Kubuntu 10.04 as an alternate-boot.
Benchmark scene results, all on the same machine:
Windows 7 + GTS 250: 0.94 samples per second.
Windows 7 + GTX 470: 6.96 samples per second.
Kubuntu + GTX 470: 12.96 samples per second.
Hot damn! I'm never rendering with Octane in Windows again! This is awesome!
Now would someone explain why Octane on Linux renders at twice the speed of the Windows version? I love it, I'm just curious...
Re: Holy Crap, I didn't know Octane on Linux was this fast!
Posted: Fri Jun 25, 2010 6:33 am
by SurfingAlien
double speed? are you sure it's not a statistic issue?
if not, I'm going to replace OS in my bootcamp partition very soon
Re: Holy Crap, I didn't know Octane on Linux was this fast!
Posted: Fri Jun 25, 2010 6:50 am
by andrian
Are you sure it's not in directlighting mode instead of patchtracing ??
Re: Holy Crap, I didn't know Octane on Linux was this fast!
Posted: Fri Jun 25, 2010 7:14 am
by tungee
What?
Re: Holy Crap, I didn't know Octane on Linux was this fast!
Posted: Fri Jun 25, 2010 1:09 pm
by Chris
andrian wrote:Are you sure it's not in directlighting mode instead of patchtracing ??
Probably...
Re: Holy Crap, I didn't know Octane on Linux was this fast!
Posted: Fri Jun 25, 2010 2:07 pm
by El Burritoh
No, it was with Pathtracing. With Direct Lighting it went from 12 up to 17.
Re: Holy Crap, I didn't know Octane on Linux was this fast!
Posted: Fri Jun 25, 2010 2:53 pm
by sam75
may we have some words from developers ? is it true ?
Re: Holy Crap, I didn't know Octane on Linux was this fast!
Posted: Fri Jun 25, 2010 5:24 pm
by vinz
Does it mean that octane can be a lot optimised for win ? or is it a particularity of linux
Re: Holy Crap, I didn't know Octane on Linux was this fast!
Posted: Fri Jun 25, 2010 5:29 pm
by El Burritoh
I should add that I was not running Kubuntu under the Wubi virtualization that you can get for Windows, but as an actual alternate boot.
And hey, speeds will vary, but it definitely performs way better under linux on the same hardware.
Re: Holy Crap, I didn't know Octane on Linux was this fast!
Posted: Fri Jun 25, 2010 8:38 pm
by radiance
this is very strange as the linux version has way more locks than the windows version, so theoretically the windows version should be a teeny bit faster (probably won't notice much at all).
this kind of performance gain is weird, are you sure the scene is %100 the same ?
Radiance