Houdini Benchmark Cores vs Clockspeed (updated)
- Alaa Alnahlawi
- Apr 3, 2018
- 2 min read
Updated: Apr 13, 2024
Something that's gonna face every artist building a new rig, which is better a fast cpu or more cores. Well let's find out, I'll focus more on simulation tasks (Pyro,Grain,ocean).
This chart is going to be up to date, so I'll really appreciate it if you ran the tests as well and shared your results, I'll list them asap with your name ;)
You can download the three test files here.
One small favor to ask from you, if you like what you find here and wanna me keep going please do consider supporting me on Patreon, and it wont be for free since you will be rewarded with access to alot of setup and tools I create, and the library is growing larger ;)
Back to the tests and all you have to do is:
Open the Hip file.
Dial in the resolution numbers as in the chart.
Go the performance monitor tab and hit record.
Hit go to the last frame.
Wait until the simulation is finished and grab the result from the performance monitor.
Convert it to seconds please.
Done.
Note: Opencl is off in the files so leave it as is.
Tested CPUs :
Threadripper 7970x, 7980X.
i7 6800K .
i9 7900x (Dorin Croitoru).
i9 7940x .
i9 7980xe (Fabian Buckreus).
TR 1950x (Siavash).
TR 2990wx (Peter Sanitra).
2x (Gold 6136 , e5-2630 , e5-2620 v3) Martijn Grootendorst.
2x (e5 2630 v4 , e5 2699v3) by Dominik.
(i7-4771 , TR 1900x) by Muhaylo Shchurba.
TR 2950x (Matti Orgelmann).
Ryzen 9 3900X (Slava Sych).
Ryzen 9 3900X Linux (Martin Brattensborg).
TR 3970X / i7-6950x (Jim Huenergardt).
TR 3970X Linux (Ryan Leasher).
TR 3960X (David Riesenberg).
i9 10980XE (Slava Sych).
Ryzen 9 3950X (Alexander Karelin).
TR 3990X (Nawras Ryhan / Felix Antoine Ludvig Hedberg).
Ryzen 9 5950X Linux (Mika Ihatsu).
intel i9 13900KS, 14900KS
Results:

Regards
Alaa Alnahlawi
Compact PC
Intel i7-14700K
RTX 4070 TI Super
64GB RAM
Grain: 217 sec
Ocean: 1248 sec
Pyro: 541 sec
Macbook M3 Max: 14 CPU Cores
30 GPU Cores
36GB RAM
Grain: 244 sec
Ocean: 1261 sec
Pyro: 661 sec
Ryzen 9 9950X3D 128 GB
RTX 4090
Windows 11
Grain 2m38s (158 sec)
Pyro 7m07s (427 sec)
Ocean 18m30s (1110sec)
I9-14900K
64 Gb ddr4
RTX 4070
Houdini 20.5.278 Win11
Grain 3:00 min (180 sec)
Pyro 7:36 min (456 sec)
Ocean 21:53 min (1313 sec)
I7-13700F
32 Gb ddr5
RTX 4070
Houdini 20.0. Win10
Grain 5:05 min (305 sec)
Pyro 13:50 min (830 sec)
Ocean 30:36 min (1836 sec)