Does RAM speed matter in Rendering?

[penang]

Sure. It's a dual Zeon Octo-Core which has 16 sandybridge cores (32 threads) running 3.1Ghz and a turbo frequency of 3.8Ghz. It has 64GB Ram and a Fire Pro 9800 4GB RAM graphics card. It has 1 SSD OS drive and 4X SSDs raided to achieve 2GB per second transfer rate. *drool*

I've only had a quick play with it and got a benchmark of 6.40 minutes, with what looked like only 16 buckets.  I need to investigate further why I haven't got all 32 cores rendering, and unfortunately I won't be able to look at that until next Wednesday.

Looks like you're not the only one who can't wait until next Wednesday

When you can get all 32 buckets to run, be sure to drop us a line on the speed of that "beast" you got there

[Hetzen]

4:30. With a bucket size of 64.

I'd had maximum threads set at 16 for the 6:40 time.

[Matt]

4:30. With a bucket size of 64.

I'd had maximum threads set at 16 for the 6:40 time.

As of TG 2.3, the 64-bit builds of TG have the default max-threads set to 64 and subdiv cache size varies depending on number of cores detected. If you're using a custom default project, you might want to remove the thread and subdiv cache size parameters from the XML with a text editor, so that TG inserts its own defaults when it loads.

Oh, I see that you're using the benchmark scene. In that case the benchmark needs to be edited!

Matt