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Houdini Benchmark Cores vs Clockspeed (updated)


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


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Atharva Sharma
Atharva Sharma
6 days ago

My 13900K started showing instability issues .....intel replaced it with a brand new14900K, so my updated build and results


i9 14900K , 128 GB , RTX 4070


Windows 11 and Ubuntu (Linux) Dual boot


Grain Linux = 2m56sec

Windows = 3m00sec


Pyro Linux = 6m31sec

             Windows = 7m33sec


Ocean Linux = 17m47sec

             Windows = 19m23sec

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Atharva Sharma
Atharva Sharma
Nov 19

Does any one has links to those test files. The link above is expired

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Evgeny Shpilivoi
Evgeny Shpilivoi
4 days ago
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Try right click on click where marked here - copy link and paste in empty tab, just tested and all works fine

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Andrey Flat
Andrey Flat
Sep 25

AMD 7950x3d

96Gb 5600Mhz


Kubuntu 24.04

H20.5.332


Pyro 0.02 = 7min33sec

Pyro 0.05 = 27sec


Grain 0.01 = 3min08sec

Grain 0.02 = 27sec


Ocean 0.05 = 22min31sec

Ocean 0.15 = 48sec

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Florian GUIB
Florian GUIB
Aug 29

My 13900k got fried -

Here is the result for the AMD 9950x


grain 0.01 = 2mn46sc

grain 0.02 = 0mn26sc


Pyro 0.02 = 3mn32sc

Pyro 0.05 = 59sc


ocean 0.05 = 17mn24sc

ocean 0.15 = 57sc


and my spec:.

This is a SFF build, so the CPU would get a bit more from a 360 AIO


  • Asus rog strix X670E-I

  • Corsair vengeance 64gb at 5200

  • 4090 FE

  • NZXT Kraken x63 and Noctua fans at 3000rpm, (noisy small beast yes)

  • Used RyzenMaster for a per core curve optimisation

  • win11, Houdini 20.5


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José Molfino
José Molfino
Apr 10

Intel i9 13900KS

ASUS z790 ProArt Wifi

Deepcool LT720 360mm Liquid CPU Cooler

192Gb RAM

BIOS: Stock Settings - Enforce All Limits - PowerLimits 320w

Windows 11 - Houdini 20


Grain: 3m07s

Pyro: 7m08s

Ocean 0.05: 20m42s

Ocean 0.05 ("Use Multigrid Preconditioner" ON in the solver): 15m16s

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José Molfino
José Molfino
Apr 10
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Nah, +30 secs. I think both CPUs are pretty similar in performance. I had to undervolt to -0.05 though...

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