Yep!

That's the idea anyway. It is probably more important for larger dimensions. I'm rendering a test now, and seeing nicer DOF then I have seen before.

After testing, I think it's still borked! No matter what render output size/options I use, I am not getting the DOF I see on screen.

I do wonder if my GPU is to blame somehow. I did try both checking and un-checking hardware rendering. No difference. Also no difference outputting PNG or video.

I should be getting this that is in my preview window during a "final" render.


Instead, I'm getting this.

Just got my RTX 2080 ti installed and just had time to render out the courtyard scene @ 1920x1080.

Time taken was 2:47


I'll be doing more testing tomorrow.


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But what format?  And settings?  (SS on, high quality, etc).

(For example, without turning on the SS or high quality shadows but just rendering the default MP4 it took me 56 seconds.  But I'm guessing you had a lot of those turned on so we'd need to know, including what SS degree you had).

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Mike "ex-genius" Kelley

So RTX cards aren't going to be all that snappy for home animation rendering. I hope Reallusion works on updating the real-time engine to get volumetric and sss. And some conforming facial hair system. 
The benchmark I guess that interests me most is if I should consider upgrading my CPU, I have an aging i7 but I just don't know what sort of improvement it would give me to upgrade. Especially within Cc3 it would be nice to speed up a lot of operations  

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Uh oh !   B.S.O.D. has stopped play for the moment..........wont get a chance to do anything about it till weekend.  DOH !

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eternityblue (11/6/2018)

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The benchmark I guess that interests me most is if I should consider upgrading my CPU, I have an aging i7 but I just don't know what sort of improvement it would give me to upgrade. Especially within Cc3 it would be nice to speed up a lot of operations  

I highly recomment GPU-Z, which is a free graphics card "load" monitoring tool (and it's FREE).

Fire up GPU-Z and your Windows "Task Manager" and keep and eye on your GPU/CPU loads.

iClone should be much, much more dependent on your gaphics card than your CPU, so even your aging i7 is unlikely to be a significant bottlneck in most situations.


I PLAN TO REVISIT THIS TEST, HOPEFULLY THIS EVENING
- The iClone "window size" still intruigues and disturbs me
- Back when I started this thread, my GPU results indicated very little GPU utilization on THIS particular test, which bothered and puzzled me
- I have another idea I want to test, but that will be kept secret until after I have some results

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Hi Dennis,

here are the test results with the 2080 TI.

Courtyeard project:

    Render time:

            "standard-screen" mode (CTRL+2), but with timeline off and no control windows within iClone space (render control window placed into another monitor): 2 mins 2 secs

The effect of the Viewer window size is evident: best configuration seeems to have the "standard screen" settings, but without any window except the timeline and the export window, sized at their default 

  Roberto

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This is a 3 year old thread, the latest benchmarks are being discussed here.

Gerry

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Hi Gerry,

IMO it still makes absolutely sense, especially for those who has some previous generation cards, because it shows the performance improvements.... when existing: did you notice that the project with soft cloth physics did not get so much improvement, which seems to say that the physic calculation time is more on the shoulder of the CPU ?.
Moreover, I was asked by Dennis and Mike to report the results here.

I am running the test on the other thread right now...
 

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VB: Palit GTX2080 TI GamingPro 11GB / AB: embedded in the MB and VB (audio from the MOTU M4 I/F) / DirectX: 12