New benchmark scene and site!

[TheBadger]

Wow man, real cool. I like the usefulness of your ambition! Nice site.

[microwar]

Just tryed the benchmark on my AMD Athlon II X4 630 2.8GHz, 4 Gig ram, win7.
24:27s 980196 micro-triangles.

What dos threds do in tg?

[Oshyan]

Each additional thread splits the rendering of the image. You always want the number of threads to equal to or less than the number of actual CPU cores (or execution threads) you have available on your system. Never use more threads than the number of cores/cpu threads you have. The more threads you are able to use, the faster your renders will be, generally speaking. Most systems these days are dual core or quad core, so you can use 2-4 threads, depending on the system. Your X4 should I think have 4 cores.

- Oshyan

[echrei]

I've added systems in the past but have been unable to add my new system to the site. When I click submit, I get a window that says "Your system was not saved."

Also, when I choose my CPU model, it puts this under speed:

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<br /> <b>Warning</b>:  include_once(/home/thrdspee/public_html/forum/SSI.php) [<a href='function.include-
once'>function.include-once</a>]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in
<b>/home/benchweb/public_html/ajax/processor_ajax.php</b> on line <b>2</b><br /> <br /> <b>Warning</b>: 
include_once() [<a href='function.include'>function.include</a>]: Failed opening
'/home/thrdspee/public_html/forum/SSI.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/share/php:/usr/share/pear') in
<b>/home/benchweb/public_html/ajax/processor_ajax.php</b> on line <b>2</b><br /> 3.33

I've changed that to my actual CPU speed but still cannot submit my machine.

[Oshyan]

I can't reproduce this issue at the moment so I'm really not sure what's going wrong. But we're moving the site to a completely new content management system in the near future, so it should resolve all this kind of stuff. If you can, keep an eye out for the new site (I'll probably mass mail the members to notify them of the update), and then enter your benchmark there. It will manage benchmark results much better than the current one anyway.

- Oshyan

[Oshyan]

New version of the benchmark site is up!
http://3dspeedmachine.com/benchmarks/render-times/terragen-2/default-renderer/
Now based on an all-new sweet CMS, new bench filtering tech, integrated forums, etc, etc. Perhaps most importantly, when you enter a benchmark result, you're given the option of specifying which version you used for the benchmark and then viewers can filter on that. In the near future we'll also be adding columns so you can view which version a benchmark was performed with, and thus compare across versions and systems.

More big plans for the future!

- Oshyan

[cyphyr]

Great, I do like the benchmark site, it helps see peoples renders in some kind of perspective. I dont remember too well but did not the last version also have a column for a user name?
cheers and thankyou
Richard

[Oshyan]

Great, I do like the benchmark site, it helps see peoples renders in some kind of perspective. I dont remember too well but did not the last version also have a column for a user name?
cheers and thankyou
Richard

Yes, it did. We'll be making some tweaks to the column display upcoming as there are other potentially useful data points to put on there.

- Oshyan

[Tangled-Universe]

The site somehow doesn't work well here, whatever browser I use.
Could someone post a direct link to the benchmark results page?
Thanks in advance

All of sudden it showed up!

Cheers,
Martin

[jaf]

I must be doing something wrong.  I check my TG2 version and it says "2.2.23.1".  I try a check for updates, and it says there are none.  The drop-down entry for the tg2 version on the benchmark page has three choices; 2.0.2.1, 2.3.6.0, and beta 1?  I can't seem to enter anything other than the three choices.

Am I missing something?

[Oshyan]

The version numbers are entered by users. Someone probably entered the wrong version (or is possibly using an alpha version). You should be able to add your own when you click Add/Edit Benchmarks (you must be registered and logged-in to do this). Simply fill in the right version number when you enter the benchmark results. I have gone ahead and added 2.2.23.1 already.

- Oshyan

[jaf]

Still having problems.  I log in and have the Terragen 2 Default Renderer page displayed.  I click the "Add/Edit Benchmarks" button and I get a "Save Benchmark" window but I can't type in the system field. The drop-down for that field offers up a blank, green filled line.  I can enter the time and software version fields, but a "Save" gives me a "System - required" message.

[Oshyan]

Ah, yeah you need to have added at least one System (computer profile/details) to your profile. This points out that it's not very clear at that point, so I'll make some changes. It's easy to add a system though. Just click the My Profile tab at top and then click Add System below, enter the details and save. Then you can add benchmarks for any app for that system. If you have multiple systems enter each one as a new system and then you can pick which system the benchmark was run on when you add a result.

- Oshyan

[jaf]

Thanks! That did it.  I thought I had already set up a system profile a while back, but I guess not.

[Oshyan]

Everything should have been migrated from the old site, but it's possible something was missed. In any case glad you got it working now and I'll update the site to let people know that they need to enter a system in order to add a benchmark.

- Oshyan