If I had a Mac Pro with two Duo modules, it can’t be that the benchmark arrives at a score and thinks to itself (in the background) “oh, I see you have 4 GPUs of the same type, so I’m just going to divide the performance score by 4 and just hand you that”. Hardware quirks, software quirks, OS quirks, driver quirks… the list goes on.Ī benchmark should remove all requirements of insight and knowledge (real or assumed) and present a single number (minimum requirement) of expected performance for a specific configuration. A benchmark demystifies component selection for those who are not interested in hardware but still want to make informed decisions.īut it also schools the “know-it-alls” by showing that real life isn’t always 1:1 of what theory, or spec numbers, might suggest. Hardware-software interaction is complex. While I highly appreciate that the benchmark was updated, I still think it can be-and should be-so much more. It’s meant to be an abstract score, with a bit of background information of what it is measuring for those who want to dig deeper. Therefore we add up the results of a number of scenes and take a median result for each hardware piece in nearly every system it will fit in. The data is accurate and can be used,īut the bottom line is that 3D artists understand every scene, and what every artist makes is different, and every system will react to every scene a little differently(there are even CPU’s out there which are better silicon with a DOA core disabled and sold as a lower tier product, like my 1070 that should have been a 1080 but began life as a top-scoring 1070 before I ran it too hot for 4 years oops.), so samples per minute is inherently a very soft value, as shown by the hard benchmark scene being slower than the simple ones. I personally don’t think it matters if the values are added up or kept separate, so long as you get a good sample size and can compare hardware on a 1:1 scale, which, because even the order that sub-pixels are sampled in is always the same, and the score calculation is always the same, is accurate. I am a proponent for allowing viewing of individual scene scores, but also I agree with brecht here that it’s merely an issue of semantics and rhetoric that could be made a little clearer. BOD basically feeding people misleading data and people draw wrong conclusions based on that data…that number should be around 219 instead of 704 that the site shows
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