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OctaneBench no support for v3.00
Posted: Sat Jun 04, 2016 11:40 pm
by nuno1980
Hello, guys.
I run "start octane.exe --benchmark" (v3.00) and I would get better score in OctaneBench but...
Octane v3.00 isn't compatible with benchmark.orbx (v2.17) because the render is freeze at "Idea Info" scene.
Therefore, you should modify benchmark.orbx in v3.00. Or you should fix "--benchmark" argument.

Re: OctaneBench no support for v3.00
Posted: Fri Sep 02, 2016 6:39 pm
by nuno1980
Benchmark script fixed - OR
3.03.4 and no need scenes modified.
I got GTX 980 Ti SC+@3505MHz VRAM forced running Win 10 x64 build 14393 and
[email protected] and I can end fine!
My result:
Thank you!

Re: OctaneBench no support for v3.00
Posted: Fri Sep 02, 2016 8:01 pm
by MaaYaa
nuno1980 wrote:Benchmark script fixed - OR
3.03.4 and no need scenes modified.
I got GTX 980 Ti SC+@3505MHz VRAM forced running Win 10 x64 build 14393 and
[email protected] and I can end fine!
My result:
Octanebench 3.03.4_Win 10
[email protected]_GTX 980Ti SC+@mem 3505MHz forced-368.81WHQL (HQ).JPG
Thank you!

what do you mean your score is 147 almost
do you use only one 980ti ?
or you are rendering GPU + CPU ?
as far as I know that GPU + CPU is not implemented yet
Re: OctaneBench no support for v3.00
Posted: Fri Sep 02, 2016 10:59 pm
by nuno1980
MaaYaa wrote:what do you mean your score is 147 almost
do you use only one 980ti ?
or you are rendering GPU + CPU ?
as far as I know that GPU + CPU is not implemented yet
Yes, score is almost 147.

I use only a GTX 980Ti. We aren't worried despite 90%~95% GPU usage (for PMC kernel only with parallel samples 4).

Re: OctaneBench no support for v3.00
Posted: Sat Sep 03, 2016 7:08 am
by MaaYaa
nuno1980 wrote:MaaYaa wrote:what do you mean your score is 147 almost
do you use only one 980ti ?
or you are rendering GPU + CPU ?
as far as I know that GPU + CPU is not implemented yet
Yes, score is almost 147.

I use only a GTX 980Ti. We aren't worried despite 90%~95% GPU usage (for PMC kernel only with parallel samples 4).

loool its even faster than 1080 .
well , if they dont optimize 1080 so it can hit 160 - 180 points , I dont see reason to upgrade towards pascal at all
it means no reason to buy pascal and pay 300$ more for 2GB of ram ,
+ 300$ for extra 10-15 points ? NO WAY
its like buying 6950x (paying almost 800$ for 2 additional cores )))))) in compare to 5960x , which costs 800-900$
2016 year hardware, software, development + prices = DISAPPOINTED !
Re: OctaneBench no support for v3.00
Posted: Sat Sep 03, 2016 4:44 pm
by rappet
MaaYaa wrote:...
2016 year hardware, software, development + prices = DISAPPOINTED !
I think it is a super year, but that's my point of view
“
patience you must have my young padawan”
"
We could narrow down the issue using the CUDA 8 RC toolkit and were able to work around it by doing a mixed CUDA 7.5/8 build for Pascal GPUs. For previous architectures we still use CUDA 7.5 only. This is all experimental and we haven't done any specific Pascal tweaks/optimizations yet and the performance isn't where we would expect it to be, but at least you can use your Pascal GPUs now."
quote from thread:
viewtopic.php?f=24&t=55274
oh.. and the hbm2 will be out in near future... that might be a cheer up
Re: OctaneBench no support for v3.00
Posted: Sat Sep 03, 2016 5:04 pm
by whersmy
I think a question as well is too what extent this new architecture hbm2 is optimizable for the octane engine and code, without sacrificing a lot on other architectures like kepler and fermi.
Re: OctaneBench no support for v3.00
Posted: Sat Sep 03, 2016 8:23 pm
by nuno1980
whersmy wrote:I think a question as well is too what extent this new architecture hbm2 is optimizable for the octane engine and code, without sacrificing a lot on other architectures like kepler and fermi.
If new GTX Titan with HBM2* or HBM3* will get normal performance then I'll buy it maybe in next year.
* - new VRAM type for 1 or 2 next-gen('s) of GTX Titan series only because new VRAM type will be very expensive.

Re: OctaneBench no support for v3.00
Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2016 11:57 am
by byMELT
Hey guys!
How to run or where did you get OctaneBench 3?
Re: OctaneBench no support for v3.00
Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2016 11:21 pm
by nuno1980
byMELT wrote:Hey guys!
How to run or where did you get OctaneBench 3?
If you're running Windows then copy "benchmark_data" (v2.17) folder and _"run_benchmark.bat" file to OctaneRender 3.x folder and run this batch file to benchmark ready. Good luck!
