Standard Candle 9.0

Hello everyone,

now that Resolve 9 is official and people are using it in production, its time to update the Standard Candle.
A standard candle is a known source of luminosity .
Here some more detailed information what it is used in astronomy :
http://www.astro.ex.ac.uk/people/hatchell/rinr/candles.pdf

I created a Resolve document that everyone can import and flick through the versions to see how much performance their system has.
Please post the numbers and refer to this thread as a reference how "good" your system performs.
There is only one footage file used and it comes with the DVD.
So the only thing you need to do is to use the "Change source folder" function to re-link to the file called 01412968.mov

The project itself is HD with 100% default values , the footage is SD to minimize HD stress.
This test is designed to put stress on your GPU pipeline, so be sure you have enough cooling.

Here the results from our system.

Globalstor workstation , 24 GB, 2x Intel Xeon X5680 @ 3.33 GHz
Quadro 6000 UI , Cubix Desktop with 4X ZOTAC ZT-50103-10P GeForce GTX 580 3GB

V01 04 blur nodes 24 fps
V02 08 blur nodes 24 fps
V03 16 blur nodes 24 fps
V04 32 blur nodes 18 fps
V05 64 blur nodes 09 fps
V06 01 NR 2 nodes 24 fps
V07 03 NR 2 nodes 20 fps
V08 06 NR 2 nodes 11 fps

Here is the YouSendIt file :
http://www.yousendit.com/download/TEhYaUNGSWhKV05vZE1UQw
Please share and host it if you can.

Happy testing and please post you results and system specs

A slice of color...


Colorist / Aerial footage nerd
http://vimeo.com/saschahaber

[Sascha Haber] "The project itself is HD with 100% default values , the footage is SD to minimize HD stress."
= "The project itself is High Definition with 100% default values , the footage is Standard Definition to minimize Hard Drive stress." (the question would arise ;-)

thanks for the project and the figures. Not yet running v9, but in the meanwhile I've put the project file here :

http://www.michaelcinquin.com/Stabdard_Candle_9.0.drp.zip

cheers

Michael Cinquin


Final Cut Pro - Avid Media Composer editor
DaVinci - Color - Baselight colorist
Color profiles for Color
http://www.michaelcinquin.com/tools : tools for FCP | Color | RED | subtitles | Cinema Tools | Timecode - Keycode calculator

Ok, that's a false alarm. Found it on an Resolve Install DVD.
Pardon me.

Artem.

Thanks for making this new std. candle!

Here's my results:

2010 Mac Pro (2x2.4 GHz Quad-core)
24GB RAM
GUI: GTX570 (MacVidCards 2.5GB)
GPU: 2x GTX570 (MacVidCards 2.5GB) in external Cyclone 2707 chassis
Mac OS X 10.7.4
CUDA driver: 5.0.24

V01 04 blur nodes: 24 fps
V02 08 blur nodes: 24 fps
V03 16 blur nodes: 24 fps
V04 32 blur nodes: 12 fps
V05 64 blur nodes: 6 fps
V06 01 NR 2 nodes: 24 fps
V07 03 NR 2 nodes: 9 fps
V08 06 NR 2 nodes: 5 fps

haha...ok, i might have put the bar sliiightly to high here ;)

here the numbers from a so called "standard" system :

MacPro 5.1 24 BG
GT120 / Quadro 4000

V00 02 blur nodes 24 fps
V01 04 blur nodes 16 fps
V02 08 blur nodes 09 fps
V03 16 blur nodes 05 fps
V04 32 blur nodes 02 fps
V05 64 blur nodes 01 fps
V06 01 NR 2 nodes 4.5 fps
V07 03 NR 2 nodes 1.5 fps
V08 06 NR 2 nodes 0.5 fps

Should we spread it out a little more ?

A slice of color...

DaVinci 9b3 OSX 10.8
MacPro 5.1 2x2,4 24GB
RAID0 8TB
GTX 470 / Quadro 4000
Extreme 3D+

Colorist / Aerial footage nerd
http://vimeo.com/saschahaber

What about this test:
http://www.barefeats.com/rogue04.html

Looks so GTX 580 is the best choice right now.

Thanks for this thread guys.

I am running a Mac Pro 3.1 with a GTX 660ti

These are my results in DaVinci Resolve 9 Lite:

V00 02 blur nodes 24 fps
V01 04 blur nodes 24 fps
V02 08 blur nodes 19 fps
V03 16 blur nodes 11 fps
V04 32 blur nodes 06 fps
V05 64 blur nodes 03 fps

More info on my blog here:

http://nrsotw.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/gtx-660ti-in-mac-pro-and-davinci.html

Mac Pro 12 core 2.4GHz / 24GB ram / HDPro2 16TB
Quadra4000 GUI / 3xGTX 680 4GB in Cubix box
OS 10.8.2 / DaVinci 9.0.1:

V01 04 blur nodes 30 fps
V02 08 blur nodes 30 fps
V03 16 blur nodes 30 fps
V04 32 blur nodes 30 fps
V05 64 blur nodes 20 fps
V06 01 NR 2 nodes 30 fps
V07 03 NR 2 nodes 30 fps
V08 06 NR 2 nodes 30 fps

kim@stjernholmco.dk

Standard PSU, but I had to remove the fans on one of the cards in order to fit 3 of them :-/
(Running "burn-test" now...)

HaHa, that's kind of funny, someone must changed the project setting, unless that's a new feature of v.9?!
Anyway, the media file is actually 25fps, so I guess I'll need to rerun the test :)

R&D&QA, IT/AV support
kim@stjernholmco.dk

Forget everything I wrote before!"#€
The guy who loaded the project had changed the project to NTSC, so all the numbers are total BS :-(
Guess it's still true that you have to do everything yourself, or waste your time checking :-/

R&D&QA, IT/AV support
kim@stjernholmco.dk

There's something funky with this system; Since I don't have the 24P test file I took the original and re-rendered it to 24P. But DaVinci still thinks it's 25P, and I don't have enough DaVinci knowledge to clear individual entries in database/prefs...

Anyway, I'm able to run the project in 25P, and here are the numbers:
V01 04 blur nodes 25 fps
V02 08 blur nodes 25 fps
V03 16 blur nodes 25 fps
V04 32 blur nodes 21.5 fps
V05 64 blur nodes 11 fps
V06 01 NR 2 nodes 25 fps
V07 03 NR 2 nodes 12 fps
V08 06 NR 2 nodes 6 fps

R&D&QA, IT/AV support
kim@stjernholmco.dk

Sascha, you are using 4 x GTX580 in Cubix, do you use Linux version to get all 4 GPUs running? Mac version is limited on 3 GPUs only.

Color grade reel: http://vimeo.com/15480583
Cofounder of http://nuframe.si postproduction

MacPro 5.1
2 x 2.66Ghz 6-Core
GeForce GT 120
20GB Ram
Cubix - 2 x Quadro 4000

1 24
2 24
3 24
4 18
5 9,5
6 24
7 15
8 8

Waiting for a project to end, so i can install a GTX 680 and Mt. lion. I'm excited to see the difference.

I did a google spreadshet with your info, please take a look and tell me what do you think.

thanks

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AvBz9NqPJG4odEJoRjlxam9SdzFBbz...

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Di Davinci Resolve Colorist

Hackintosh i7-2600k
gt120 / gtx 460

Hello Sascha,

I am very interest in running your test on my machine but the yousend link is dead. Can you please help to were I can get that file. Also if is not asking to much, I am a newbie to all this, sorry, can you explain to me how to run the test.
Thank you so much in advance.
Ferando

Candle test with New IMAC 2013

Processor 3.4 GHz Intel Core i7
Memory 16 GB 1600 MHz DDR3
Graphics NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680MX 2048 MB
Software OS X 10.8.2


V01 04 blur nodes 24 fps
V02 08 blur nodes 20 fps
V03 16 blur nodes 10 fps
V04 32 blur nodes 5 fps
V05 64 blur nodes 3.5 fps
V06 01 NR 2 nodes 7.5 fps
V07 03 NR 2 nodes 3 fps
V08 06 NR 2 nodes 1.5 fps