Comments on: PC World (Australia) Using Blender for Processor Evaluation and Benchmarking

By: LOGAN

LOGAN — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 23:39:13 +0000

Well if chip manufacturers start optimizing their chips for Blender, it's not as bad as they would optimize for some benchmark system, is it?

By: harkyman

harkyman — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 21:42:45 +0000

Current 2.46-test-2 builds use OpenMP for fluid sim, I believe. I ran a previous testing build of it on a quad core machine, and all cores were used. I believe that the fluid bake ignores the Threads setting in the Scene buttons, though, and uses all available cores (that's an OpenMP thing).

By: marijn

marijn — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 17:52:15 +0000

i used it too to benchmark my new computer. (it's about six times faster!)

By: nexus

nexus — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 15:16:14 +0000

Hi! How many cores Blender can use in running fluid sim?

By: nexus

nexus — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 15:11:29 +0000

Hi, could someone tell me is Blender makes use of more than one core when is baking fluid simulation?

By: DramaKing

DramaKing — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 12:44:03 +0000

It's worth pointing out that Blender has a specific benchmarking script, which makes comparing render times unnecessary.

By: gauravanim

gauravanim — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 04:02:39 +0000

hey man its great…now Blender as benchmarking tool….What next :D

By: daydreamgfx

daydreamgfx — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 02:02:30 +0000

GO AUSSIE GO!

By: Markus

Markus — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 22:17:04 +0000

There are not that many applications that can use a quad core CPU usfully. I think this is the reason for using Blender to show what this new technology can do. Right now there are only an hand full of applications that will profit from more than two cores. However I hope to be able to render BBB in real time in the future on a home PC. Maybe with a 1mega core CPU ;)

Markus Schulz

By: erl

erl — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 22:13:28 +0000

great so hear blender is used this way