The purpose of this forum is for us to compare iClone performance results with each other.  As a result, we will also gain a better understanding of what system parameters have the greatest impact on iClone.

THE RENDER TEST (#1):

I will start by using the "Courtyard" project that comes with iClone.





RENDER SETTINGS:

I'm rendering to MP4, 1920x1080, Final Quality... No super-sampling, No high-quality shadows.




MY COMPUTER:

See my system specs in my signature.


INITIAL RESULTS:

My "preview" runs reliably at 60fps.

Render to video = 5:03
For 1,200 frames, that comes out to be about 4 fps rendering speed.









ADDENDUM:

Old text from my first test, which was reported a "6 minutes"...

Rendering took approximately 6 minutes.

Caveat on the time...
I used the "created" and "last modified" timestamps from the video file, so it really could be almost +/- whole minute.
Date created is 7/23/2016 11:03 AM
Date Modified is 7/23/2016 11:09 AM
But that could be 11:03:01 and 11:09:59... resulting in 6:58 (almost 7 minutes)
Or it could also be 11:03:59 and 11:09:01... resulting in 5:02 (just over 5 minutes)
I'll have to do this again and sit and time it, but I wanted to at least start this thread.


ADDED ABOUT TWO YEARS LATER:

First - The original tests were run against iClone 6.  Not sure if it was 6.0 or 6.1 or whatever.

I decided it would be best to record my actual specs as a permanent entry in this post, to prevent against future upgrades to my system.
Desktop (homebuilt) - Windows 7, i7-3770k CPU, GTX 1080 GPU (8GB), 16GB RAM, Asus P8Z77-V Pro motherboard, 500 GB SSD, terabytes of disk space, dual  monitors.
(I think I had a "slower" 256GB SSD at that time, but the difference would be negligible.)

I just did the test again, Nov 7, 2018.
iClone 7.3
Render time = 5:05, which is almost the exact same result as reported above.

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iClone 7... Character Creator... Substance Designer/Painter... Blender... Audacity...
Desktop (homebuilt) - Windows 10, Ryzen 9 3900x CPU, GTX 1080 GPU (8GB), 32GB RAM, Asus X570 Pro motherboard, 2TB SSD, terabytes of disk space, dual  monitors.
Laptop - Windows 10, MSI GS63VR STEALTH-252, 16GB RAM, GTX 1060 (6GB), 256GB SSD and 1TB HDD