Only a little interesting as you don’t define the motherboard, which slots are used for which cards and if any other cards are in slots, Decklink or drive control etc.
Measuring CPU or GPU performance still comes back to the lowest common denominator. You can have fast cpus and slow system memory, fast raid but card in a x4 slot etc.
I’m not saying your test is invalid, just an incomplete story just like the original Pudget tests.
Hiya Peter. Here is the rest of the information:
Supermicro MBD-X10DAI-O C610
Intel Xeon E5-2697 V3 s2011-3 (14 cores with 2.7GHz with turboboost to 3.1GHz, Noctua coolers so they never throttle down but can run in 3.1GHz as long as needed)
2x64GB Cruc DDR4 Server (4x16GB)
2x12GB Asus GTX TITAN X 12GD5 (all sitting in PCI-E 16x)
480GB SAMSUNG PM863 SSD SATA
8x8TB HITACHI SATA HDD (in Raid 10)
Areca ARC-1882i Dual Core PCIe
No decklink cards.
OS. Windows 10.0.15063
Davinci: 14.01
Personally, I think there are other details that would need to be improved with the "test" such as:
- Using the same red clip.
- Also use different types of hardware, otherwise you have little to compare with
- Also this primarily tests noise reduction which is of course only useful if that is what you need to do, ideally you would have tests similar to what you actually work with.
If I would benchmark for myself this is how I would do it:
- benchmark playback of Red files on a 4k timeline with a 4k monitor, 5k is the highest resolution we have.
- Test some formats like Motion Jpeg, ProRes, DNxHR and H265, image sequences.
- Do a few example scenes with various amount of grading, everything from 5 notes to 30
- Do some scenes with stabilization since I use this feature a lot and it's very demaning on the hardware.
- Benchmark an export since it has real world usage.
- Use both 1 card or 2 cards. Could be interesting with 1 or 2 CPUs, but not sure how to turn one of them off without taking it out.
What could be useful is to have a built in benchmark in Resolve. Maxwell Render has this and I always found it very useful. Your harddrive test is my favorite hdd benchmark program.
Best,
Andreas