Mac M2 Render Speed Test

[ColinW]

Dave, file attachedtest render model.vwx

[tdmaine]

i9 Hackintosh 7.07   

[Don Seidel]

Mac Studio M2 Ultra 128 GB ram (OS 14.0)  = 5:42

VW 2024

 

TwinMotion or Enscape onscreen = 2.3288964 sec

Output to jpeg = probably under 15 sec.

Edited October 26, 2023 by Don Seidel

[dtheory]

Mac Studio M1 Ultra 64Gb RAM 6:45..  substantial difference from @Don Seidel

An earlier test performed on VW2023 came in at 6:33

Edited October 26, 2023 by dtheory

[Don Seidel]

...so it begs the question: WHY do any final render in VW anymore? 

 

The modest cost of TM or ES for the speed and final product are an incredible value. I LOVE that ES operates as a live  plugin, making the start-to-finish process even faster.

 

Of course VW was never design to primarily be a render program, but the speeds of even top-end machines are dinosaurs compared to what base-level machines can do with TM or ES.

[line-weight]

Everyone will have their own idea of "modest" cost, and of course in theory you can link it back to increased fee earning productivity and so on... but if you look at the cost of VW a few years ago, including its built in rendering facility, and compare that to the cost of VW plus an ES or TM licence now, and also bear in mind the fact that it's all subscription and you don't really own anything in exchange for your cash - then I wouldn't say that the difference is "modest".

[tdmaine]

Twin Motion at least is a fixed cost / no subscription 

[zoomer]

2 hours ago, tdmaine said:

Twin Motion at least is a fixed cost / no subscription 

 

Yes.

I think TM (and Unreal !) Licensing changes are still not final,

but so far it sounds like it is a perpetual License, including all

updates for a year.

 

But that was basically always the case for TM.

(Beside that the gave out licenses for free, for doing early beta testing,

for woning a VW license, .... and that I never heard them asking for a

next year fee during the last years)

 

But it is not clear if you get the perpetual App for that price (?)

and pay the same price for a potential Upgrade/Update after a year,

which feels a bit like a subscription payment - while keeping

the perpetual character and access to your data.

Or if you will get update discount prices ?

 

Everything is a bit vague.

[neal-2002]

Would love to see some timings for an M3 - anyone got one??

 

[zoomer]

5 hours ago, neal-2002 said:

Would love to see some timings for an M3 - anyone got one??

 

 

On Blender Open Data, M3 Max  looks very good.

(better than M2 Ultra !)

 

If you can live with a Macbook Pro and a M3 Max.

Looks like the MBP M3 Max will be Apples flagship for some time coming ....

 

 

[Tweir96]

So, on my Win 11 PC with an AMD Ryzen 5050X 16-core 32-thread, my time was 13:49. The temperature stayed at 52c, and I was at 100% utilization. Other specs that didn't apply in this case are RAM DDR4 128 GB and a video card is 7970 XTX with 24 GB memory.  

 

M2 Macs and, of course, the M2 Ultra are really putting out some impressive times. 

[Tweir96]

I just ran the core optimizer in Ryzen Master, and this significantly increased the render time.  13:49 was my first pass and optimized I just ran a 6:51. Ryzen 5950x 16 core 32 thread.