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First test on iMac Pro

iSeeThisiSeeThis Posts: 559
edited May 2018 in The Commons

I assume that this is the first one cuz I can't google it. This is unprofessional and unwise. But curiousity sometimes drives us to do irrelevant things (and this is one of them). I bought iMac Pro 8 cores just to test how good it is for Daz rendering (if good I might return 8 cores and buy 18 instead!). The result is quite dissappointed. I use the test suite that SickleYield created ( https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/53771/iray-starter-scene-post-your-benchmarks/p1 ) I think it is a good reference over time for me.

iMac Pro finished the render with CPU alone in 20 minutes 24.89 seconds. My 2xGTX1080Ti could do it in 1.54 minutes. I've seen some Youtube clips showing live rendering in cinema4d with AMD GPU and quite impressed with it ( ).

Thus, with my unprofessional judge, I've made the right decision. I invest in Radeon Pro Vega 64 for FCP jobs and future not-iRay rendering. For now that I only render in DAZ, just keep on using PC for it. No 18 cores required! (right?)

 

 

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  • TangoAlphaTangoAlpha Posts: 4,587

    The Vega 64 is no benefit for Iray, so for me, that kills it right there, even though I do have other work tools that can make use of it. My old late-2012 27" i5 iMac will have to keep going until we see what the full-on Mac Pro will be next year (I'm planning on updating the clunker HDD for an SSD, as soon as I feel brave enough . . .) Meanwhile the Windows/1080Ti combo on the other side of my desk is doing a sterling job rendering even if it is ****ing noisy! 

  • ArtiniArtini Posts: 10,407
    edited May 2018

    You can easily boot up MacOS from the external SSD drive.

    We have done such upgrade on 2 iMacs at work, which only have had mechanical HDD and the other one, fusion drive with very small SSD part.

    We have used external 512 GB Samsung SSD drive connected via USB 3. After such upgrade, both iMacs runs around 6 times faster.

    One can easily transfer all programs, data and operating system with Migration Assistant on Mac.

     

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  • iSeeThisiSeeThis Posts: 559
    edited May 2018
    TangoAlpha said:

    Meanwhile the Windows/1080Ti combo on the other side of my desk is doing a sterling job rendering even if it is ****ing noisy! 

     

    Yeah. Fan noise is undisputed annoying. I decide that if I have $100m I will build a room for render farm. I will monitor everything by my quiet laptop in my cosy bedroom. It's a dream for today. Hope not for tomorrow! :D

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  • Geminii23Geminii23 Posts: 1,328

    Yeah, this has been a big problem for me since I am also a MAC user.  I bought an 8-core Mac Pro (trash can) this summer.  I have been exploring the possibility of adding an external Nvidia GPU just for DAZ so I can render in iRay faster, but at this point I am content just doing 3DL renders.  I have a second windows computer that I haven't been using for quite awhile (6-core CPU, Dual Nvidia GTX 760 GPUs) so at some point I might just fire that up and make it a secondary render only machine.  But not sure I can insall DAZ and all my content on both machiens at same time.      

  • bytescapesbytescapes Posts: 1,908
    Geminii23 said:

    ... not sure I can insall DAZ and all my content on both machiens at same time.      

    The DAZ license agreement says:

    The Content may be copied in whole or in part for User’s exclusive use. Specifically, User may copy the Content onto the storage device of an unlimited number of computers owned or controlled by User.

    I am not a lawyer or a DAZ employee, but my reading of that would be that it's entirely permissible for you to install the content on both of your machines simultaneously. It sounds as if DAZ expect people to want to render on multiple machines, or to have a dedicated render machine, and have drafted their terms accordingly.

    The 'controlled by User' would probably also allow you to put content on a machine that you don't personally own, such as a virtual machine provided by a cloud provider like Amazon, so that you can render there. The only thing you can't do is let other people who aren't you make use of the content you've licensed.

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