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Houdini Benchmark Cores vs Clockspeed (updated)

  • Writer: Alaa Alnahlawi
    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


79 Comments


Rasmus Elias
Rasmus Elias
Jun 18

Compact PC

Intel i7-14700K

RTX 4070 TI Super

64GB RAM


Grain: 217 sec

Ocean: 1248 sec

Pyro: 541 sec

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Rasmus Elias
Rasmus Elias
Jun 18

Macbook M3 Max: 14 CPU Cores

30 GPU Cores

36GB RAM


Grain: 244 sec

Ocean: 1261 sec

Pyro: 661 sec

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Simon Zeng
Simon Zeng
Jun 08

Ryzen 9 9950X3D 128 GB

RTX 4090

Windows 11


Grain 2m38s (158 sec)


Pyro 7m07s (427 sec)


Ocean 18m30s (1110sec)

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Ява
Ява
Apr 09

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)

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Ява
Ява
Feb 19

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)

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