Xeon E3 1230V3 Hasswell - Impressive with Vray renderer.

[Superkames]

Hello everyone.

 

Recently, I have some quick test with Xeon E3 1230V3, a Hasswell base CPU with a famous 3D renderer : Vray

I used 2 version of 3dsmax & Vray to do my tests.

1. Vray 1.5SP5 & 3dsmax 2011
   
2. Vray 2.40.03 & 3dsmax 2012
   

 

The rendering time to finish the render tasks of Xeon E3 1230V3 are really impressive compare to the previous gen CPUs.

 

I did my tests with 2 3dsmax scenes from Evermotion.

(Lightcache/Number of passes is set to 8/12 to match the CPUs core/threads)

 

Archinteriors 01 - vol 01:

 

Archinteriors 03 vol 16:

 

 

My hardwares :

1. Intel Xeon E3-1230V3 Haswell LGA 1150
   
2. Crucial Single 16 chip 8GB ( 2x4GB ) bus 1600
   
3. Gigabyte H87M-D3H - LGA 1150
   
4. Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB
   
5. Sparkle NVIDIA GTX 650
   
6. Corsair Builder VS450
   
7. Zalman CNPS 5X Performa
   
8. THOR Athena Mid-Tower Gaming Case
   

Edited July 11, 2013 by Superkames

[Superkames]

The results:

 

All screenshots can be downloaded here : http://www.mediafire.com/download/v67qvbuh52ewqvq/Screenshot.rar

 

 

And the charts:

 

Archinteriors 01 - vol 01::

 

Rendering time (second): lower is better.

 

Archinteriors 03 vol 16::

 

Rendering time (second): lower is better.

 

 

Archinteriors 03 vol 16 - Rendering time (percent) compare with Xeon E3 1230V3:

 

[Superkames]

Vray 1.5SP5 & 3dsmax 2011 vs Vray 2.40.03 & 3dsmax 2012

 

3dsmax 2011 + Vray 1.5SP5:

 

3dsmax 2012 + Vray 2.4:

 

Vray 2.4/3dsmax 2012 seem a little faster than Vray 1.5SP5/3dsmax 2011.

[Superkames]

And the temps:

 

My ambient temp ~ 25-26 Celsius degree:

 

Rendering temp:

 

LinX non AVX

 

IBT-maximum + AVX:

 

 

Thanks for watching.

[Dimitris Tolios]

I did not have seen a similar test before, but beating a Sandybridge EP arch (3820) by 30%, while rated @ 70% or less TDP, is simply amazing.

 

Looks impressive - almost too good to be true:

3820 has an "aggregate" GHz of 8 Threads * 3.6GHz = 28.8 GHz @ Sandy EP

The peppy Xeon has 8 Threads * 3.6GHz = 26.4 GHz @ Haswell

 

To beat the 3820 by 30%, that means the Haswell Xeon is nearly 42% more efficient in VRay over Sandy EP (Sandybridge Xeons).

The rest of the compute benches I've seen place it more in the 15-17% range, which is more believable and consistent, but I would be glad to be surprized.

 

Great presentation at any rate.

[Superkames]

I did not have seen a similar test before, but beating a Sandybridge EP arch (3820) by 30%, while rated @ 70% or less TDP, is simply amazing.

 

Looks impressive - almost too good to be true:

3820 has an "aggregate" GHz of 8 Threads * 3.6GHz = 28.8 GHz @ Sandy EP

The peppy Xeon has 8 Threads * 3.6GHz = 26.4 GHz @ Haswell

 

To beat the 3820 by 30%, that means the Haswell Xeon is nearly 42% more efficient in VRay over Sandy EP (Sandybridge Xeons).

The rest of the compute benches I've seen place it more in the 15-17% range, which is more believable and consistent, but I would be glad to be surprized.

Great presentation at any rate.

 

 

15-17% range is ok if you compare them with Cinebench R11.5 or scanline renderer.

 

Vray is a different story and it is rarely seen in CPUs reviews .

 

Cinema 4D R13 - default renderer is also different from Vray or Cinebench R11.5:

 

 

 

 

Try it yourself if possible and you will see how impressive it is.

Edited July 11, 2013 by Superkames

[numerobis]

interesting!

But if this is true it looks like it must be something v-ray related (and maybe c4d R13), because the maxwell scores look almost the same as ivy bridge. Maybe they are already using AVX2?

 

btw. the FX8350 looks impressive too here!