Houdini Benchmark Cores vs Clockspeed (updated)
- 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.
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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
MacMini M4 base model Houdini 21.0.512 Pyro 0.02 - 15m 58s - 958s
I'm back now with the Silverstone XE360-TR5 AIO cooler for my 7960X. Not a gigantic gain in time, but an incredible relief in temperature. Not sure of any improvements I can do to the time without overclocking, but I'm open to suggestions.
Threadripper 7960X
256 GB
RTX 4090
Windows 11
Grain 2m53s (173 sec)
Pyro 8m25s (505 sec)
Ocean 19m41s (1181 sec)
Thanks Evgeny!
Final testing results:
Intel 285K
MSI MAG Tomahawk Z890
128GB GSkill DDR5 RAM 6000 CL34 (5600MHZ for stock test)
Integrated GPU
Windows 11
Houdini version 21.0.440
Default CPU Bios settings
Pyro: 6m 26s
Grain: 3m 03s
Flip: 19m 33s
Note, testing with +200S Boost Setting Enabled with XMP made almost no difference from stock
Overclock Result
E-core Overclock to 5.0Ghz @1.22v, P-cores left stock
Ring clock 4.1, D2D and NPU manual clock to 3.2, XMP enabled
Average CPU TDP for this overclock runs about 280W under full pyro load.
Pyro: 6m 01s
Grain: 2m 51s
Flip: 18m 27s
A P-core overclock is definitely possible in conjunction with the E-core OC, but I had stability issues when using adaptive…
Hi there, currently running some benchmarks for a new Intel 285k build, and am getting some warnings:
/obj/pyro_sim/pyrosolver1: Skipping unrecognized parameter "correct_collisions".
/mat/flames: Skipping unrecognized parameter "folder2_4"
(a number of folders through to 25)
/out/mantra_ipr: Skipping unrecognized parameter "output5"
These are the warnings I get on Pyro, Grain has no warning and Flip has the /flames and /mantra_ipr warnings only.
I was originally getting crashes that were preventing me from running Pyro, however after updating some drivers I can now run it, however the warnings remain as above. My Pyro solve time looks better than I expected (6m24s), so just want to make sure that the error isn't actually speeding up the solve? (final sim appears to complete as expected).
Anyone with M4 Max or M3 Ultra?