Comments on: Render Speed Comparison (2.49b VS 2.5)

By: Bob2

Bob2 — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:14:17 +0000

I tried it and my render time came down by more than half, which was great. What was not so great was seeing all you guys measuring your times in seconds when I’m still in multiple minutes on a 3GHz Pentium 4 (wipes a tear from the eye), still, I love my machine and 5m35s down to 2m30s is quite an improvement.

By: deyon

deyon — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 17:30:35 +0000

i dont care much for speed. just give me a good quality render.

By: peterlove Jesus

peterlove Jesus — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:56:42 +0000

I notice a thing in rendering a mirrored and transparented object with ray tracing enabled in rendering setting i see to say it to all , if it realy true ,
after rendering an animation , try to change the octree value in rendering settings , some times rendering faster when choosing higher value and sometimes faster when choosing lowest value . so i suggest when rendering try and press scape to try another value of octree to see your choice which will be faster , God bless all

By: konrad_ha

konrad_ha — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 10:24:56 +0000

Reading this I finally got a custom build from http://www.graphicall.org/builds and man, should I have done that earlier! Not only does the optimized version for my CPU render about 30% faster, it also comes with a great custom theme, a plethora of useful scripts, a material library and tons of other features. Using custom builds is the way to go!

By: Tim, LA

Tim, LA — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 15:10:25 +0000

@Lokimonster:
OKOK!! But with 8 tiles I get 10,13 seconds! What do you say now!!

By: Tim, LA

Tim, LA — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 14:39:10 +0000

Yes, a littel bit faster!
15,9 s with 2.49b and with 2.5 it’s 12,04 s!! (both 8 threads!)
But I am waiting for the finished 2.5 with GI and particle-rendering!!

By: Akta

Akta — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 08:53:19 +0000

Unbelievable, I was sceptic about that and yesterday I tried for the first time the version 2.5
Another level guys, I love it and it’s a lot easier to learn than every other Blender version ever, rendering was 3 times faster with my scene (41.25 seconds with 2.5, 2 mins and 20 secs with 2.49b on a Mac Pro dual quad-core)

By: banor

banor — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 01:15:12 +0000

wow…

By: Alex Blank

Alex Blank — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 22:00:47 +0000

YES!

By: saverio

saverio — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 20:16:23 +0000

done! :) from 34.98 seconds to 24.84 with sse3 and 3 threads, the sculpting is more faster too…