Hello everyone. At last we have a new benchmark (candidate) that does a better job of showcasing Terragen 3 features and stressing modern systems without being as imbalanced as the older benchmark was on multi-core machines. The scene features several elements from the Terragen 3 presets pack, including Ulco's arch, Jack Marsh's green cliffs displacement and texturing, and Volker's marble texture and fake stones setup, along with Matt's Mackerel Sky. So it's got a decent amount going on.
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What I'd like you guys to do for the next day or two is run the scene on your machines and record the times (hours, minutes, seconds) and just post a reply here with your bench time and CPU type/speed (Ghz). Don't worry about OS or amount of RAM, we'll be collecting more complete system specs on the final benchmark, and there will be a form to fill out to submit results along with a public table of results for comparison. But for now I just want to make sure the benchmark doesn't take too long (and isn't *too* quick either) on a sampling of machines that you guys have here. On my i7 2600k here it takes about 10 minutes, and on my 2.0Ghz i7 mobile (also quad core) it's about 15 minutes. The Benchmark TGD is attached, just download, open, and hit Render.
I just don't want to see times that are longer than people are likely to bother with running a benchmark, so if we start to see 30, 45 minutes, or an hour or longer, I might adjust some settings or lower the resolution. Also feel free to let me know how long you think is reasonable for a benchmark to take, though keep in mind that a benchmark that's too quick will give you less accurate results.
Once I am able to get a preliminary idea of how performance is looking for average machines here I'll finalize the benchmark and, if settings haven't changed, you can just add your result to the final result list. Otherwise you'll need to re-run the benchmark before you can do so.
Thanks!
- Oshyan
