How fast you are ?

[marvins_dad]

It looks like no one on page 5 checked the "Fit to proportions" box...that will change your result. Would love to see those numbers from you guys.

[Solo]

If you select the fit to proportions box the render will not be 1000 x 1000 but rather 1000 x whatever your screen ratio is, so you need to keep that unchecked for the speed test.

[Ecuadorian]

Those with wider monitors or with SketchUp full of toolbars get the fastest results with that box checked...

[marvins_dad]

My bad - for some reason I thought it was supposed to be checked...I went back and re-read the first post. :dho:

[Ecuadorian]

Actually, the first post in this thread contains a render done with the box checked... notice how it isn't actually 1000x1000 but 1000x548...

[vizfellas]

Actually, the first post in this thread contains a render done with the box checked... notice how it isn't actually 1000x1000 but 1000x548...

I catch my mistake and I change render time to the real time

[WardNL]

Maybe we could update the startpost with some kind of ranking? So we can compare specs.

[WardNL]

New test results on Win 7:

Wormtest.jpg (96.94 KiB) Viewed 11720 times

Win 7 64 bit : 47 sec

vs os OS

Win XP 32 bit: 50 sec

[Fletch]

Any system may vary that much from render to render.

[Ecuadorian]

In XP, I tested the "worm" several times, and the result was min: 39seconds; max: 40 seconds.

I've just re-tested with Windows 7 Pro 64-bits. Now my result, again after running multiple tests, is minimum: 34 seconds; maximum: 35 seconds.

This means I have just got an extra 14% of "worm performance" by just upgrading from XP to 7 . I read somewhere that Lynnfield had been developed with Windows 7 in mind and that Windows 7 handles multi-threading better. This seems to be true.

I'll try with my other test files, too, to see what the variation is.