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I don't personnaly have access to any systems with the I7 CPU. But these are my results so far on the AMD CPUs. |
Just an update, I am not advocating getting the GT240, but right now it is performing as well as the higher end video cards in our systems.
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Thanks, David. Are there any reasons why you are not advocating getting the GT240? Is there a card you do advocate?
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I have 6 of the GT240s installed, along with a GT260 and GT460 installed in our systems. Personally, for the money and currenty performance in Premiere CS5 I like the GT240 with DDR5 memory. In our systems, it is performing the same as the other cards with Premiere. BTW, you mentioned the article with all updates happening often. I am trying to figure out a way to make the updates to our article standout, like putting the updates in red. The only problem has been, is I have been updating every few days and within a week or two, alot of it will be in red.... lol. |
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Randall, that makes sense as to why they all perform similarly.
If you look on the ppbm5.com site, there is one user, BillG, that seems to have tested his i7 980x setup with different cards. His setup comparing the 285 vs 480 yields almost identical results. It looks like he has boosted his performance gains even more by overclocking his CPU. He sped up the benchmark by 50 seconds just from overclocking from 4.2 to 4.4GHz, if I am interpreting the results correctly. Very interesting! Harm, is there any way to download the spreadsheet data so that we can sort the results to draw better conclusions? |
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Peter,
Bill and I have been looking into that, but we encounter several problems. A SQL database would offer the sortability you so much desire (and you are not unique in that) but loses the colors and conditional formatting (Top, D9, Q3, Med, etc.) so in our view that is out. Apart from the ASP and NET efforts from our side. Keep in mind that both Bill and I do this as a hobby and a service to you all. We have been looking into publishing pre-sorted result pages for the top-xx submissions, that are static by nature. The drawback for us is the effort it takes to update all these sheets every time we get another top-xx result. xx being undefined at the moment. We have been looking into adding a down-loadable version of the spreadsheet, but we do want to protect the macros, conditional formatting and formulas used in the spreadsheet, so that means we have to create a new spreadsheet with values only and that creates new problems. Rest assured, we are looking into this, but have not yet found a sensible solution. As soon as we have found one, we will let you know on the PPBM5 site. |
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Right now the article is pretty much complete with the exception of new driver updates and new video cards to add to the list, so I think my idea of putting the update info at the end would work. At least I hope so.... lol. |
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I was having problems trying to just copy and paste from the benchmark results page into excel as it would be tab-deliminated data and wouldn't import properly into excel. However, I was able to get the data into Excel via a web query. Just being able to sort through and filter things makes it easier to analyze the data and draw conclusions. Anyways, I already appreciate all the work you've done putting the tests and site together and updating them. Thanks again, Peter |
I noticed that some of the faster Disk Access setups also have faster non-MPE speeds. Most of the faster setups have RAID0 setups, some with SSD drives and some with up to an 8 drive RAID0! Is this even safe? Wouldn't it be disastrous if even 1 drive were to go bad, especially in BillG's 8 drive RAID0 setup?
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If even one drive in a RAID 0 setup goes bad, the data (if any) on the other seven becomes unusable. (At least without the need to use astronomically expensive data recovery services.)
Though I have to admit that even single-drive setups are not immune to total data loss. In fact, the very slowest Disk Access setups are those systems that use just a single drive (or single drive volume) for everything - the OS, programs, projects, renders, page file and video source and output files. Those are the systems that have the greatest risk for data loss due to the extra wear and tear on the single drive. Those are the very reasons why Adobe does not recommend single-drive systems at all with any of its prosumer-level Creative Suite applications. And yes, a two-drive software RAID 0 array on an Intel SATA controller does not improve the disk access scores enough over a very fast single disk (separate from the OS disk) to justify the trouble of creating such an array. |
Peter,
This is a very valid and good point you make. Normally no one would even consider a 8 disk raid0 for editing, but for benchmarking it is OK, at least for that purpose only, IMO. Rendering does require that the preview files are written to disk and then disk speed does come into the picture as well, not only CPU/GPU/memory speed. Bill is constantly trying out various disk setups, with multi SSD's, SCSI's, SATA's with different cards (LSI, ARECA 1680, and shortly 1880) and different raid configurations. I always wonder how his basement looks with all the stuff he gathered in the past years. |
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